In 1963, the great African-American writer James Baldwin quoted an old spiritual in a famous essay, correctly predicting the civil strife that was to come: God gave Noah the rainbow sign. Said no more water, but the fire next time - Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality.
Why does Trevor need to highlight the racial background of James Baldwin!?!
In 1968, the great White-British politician Enoch Powell quoted Virgil's Aenid, correctly predicting the civil strife that was to come: Like the Roman, I seem to see ‘the River Tiber foaming with much blood’.
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