How does Baldwin analyze the actions and attitudes of “the white man” in paragraph 11? Use details to support your answer.

The black man insists, by whatever means he finds at his disposal, that the white man cease to
regard him as an exotic rarity and recognize him as a human being. This is a very charged and difficult
moment, for there is a great deal of will power involved in the white man's naiveté. Most people are not
naturally reflective any more than they are naturally malicious, and the white man prefers to keep the
black man at a certain human remove because it is easier for him thus to preserve his simplicity and avoid
being called to account for crimes committed by his forefathers, or his neighbors. He is inescapably
aware, nevertheless, that he is in a better position in the world than black men are, nor can he quite put to
death the suspicion that he is hated by black men therefore. He does not wish to be hated, neither does he
wish to change places, and at this point in his uneasiness he can scarcely avoid having recourse to those
legends which white men have created about black men, the most usual effect of which is that the white
man finds himself enmeshed, so to speak, in his own language which describes hell, as well as the
attributes which lead one to hell, as being as black as night.