<s>[INST] Here's a quote from a letter written by James Baldwin in 1962:

"I, for example, and no matter from what state he comes, there is no white man in this country who can consider himself my equal who ever looked on me as other than a "n-----." I don't care how fine a house he comes out of. He has never looked on me as other than a "n-----," and with that word the history of this country has changed for him too."

How would you explain the main idea of this quote in your own words?[/INST]