February is Black History Month and as sure as the Earth turns, Black writer and thinker, James Baldwin becomes popular. Baldwin was a very homely, frail, towering Black American intellectual. Black and Gay…..he was driven from his Baptist roots ( his Father was a Minister) into exile in France. From there, he launched jeremiads against American racism, most notably in his book of essays, THE FIRE NEXT TIME. One of the things that this Blogger finds most intriguing about Baldwin is his hatred of one of this Blogger’s favorite American novelists, Nobel Laureate Mississippi white supremacist, William Faulkner. " Faulkner told the New York Herald Tribune that he longed  for the return of the “benevolent autocracy” of slavery , in which “Negroes would be better off because they’d have some one to look after them.” In 1956,  he told a journalist that if the Federal government used troops to enforce integration in the South he would do as his Confederate great-grandfather had done bef