In James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, Baldwin’s kept describing white people as “innocents”. He uses that word multiple times, how is Baldwin defining that word? What’s the point he trying to make for his nephew. Baldwin’s sees people with power in his life, power gained through education, social position, violence, money, age, and religion. What does he see as some of the problems of having power and no power? For example, in case of Baldwin, he talked about his personalize history and the issue of black oppression, how does he do that in the united states because would his personalizing result in too narrow a focus or would it intensify his accounts impact and our response.