How does Baldwin propose to alter the balance of power? What is his vision for change?

One of the most praiseworthy features of The Fire Next Time, I believe, is that Baldwin does not give a direct proposal, or prescription, for how to change the status quo. To do so would be simplistic. The reader must infer, based on the thoughtful and path-breaking analysis of race relations he presents, the steps that individuals and the nation need to take.
An important point is that white Americans, in general, do not seem to understand their own history or acknowledge that race has affected everything in America. Baldwin is writing in the early 1960s, but his point, in spite of the progress we have made as a nation since then, is still valid today. An honest reckoning of the past is essential in order to correct those huge mistakes and move forward.
At the same time, Baldwin suggests that African Americans should reject those leaders who wish to employ the same prejudicial thinking against whites that has been, and continues to be, used against black people. He devotes a large part of his essay to Elijah Mohammed's Nation of Islam movement, viewing it as self-defeating and irrational in its attempts to demonize all white people and seek a separate territory in which to build a black nation-state.
Ultimately, the solution, in Baldwin's view, is for all Americans to see the future of America as a truly multicultural and multiracial one. It is, he indicates, something that is already happening in his own time. To somehow negate this, to act as if a purely white society (or a continuation of one in which the whites are solely in charge), or a purely black society, would even be possible, is to live in a fantasy world. America must embrace reality and move forward. And again, in spite of the very real positive changes of the more than half a century since The Fire Next Time was written, his message still resounds today, in the twenty-first century.