At the end of The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin explains what needs to happen in America to end the effects of white supremacy: "If we - and now I mean the relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others - do not falter in our duty now, we may be able, handful that we are, to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country, and change the history of the world. If we do not dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophesy, re-created from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next time!" With white supremacy now burning out in the open, fed by white resentment of the economic and political achievements of non- whites, all Americans must not falter in their duty to end our racial nightmare.