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“I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.”

Quote by Angela Davis

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Angela Davis is a renowned political activist, scholar, and author. Born on January 26, 1944, she is known for her radical stance on racial, gender, and class struggles. She was a key figure in the American civil rights movement and anti-war movement in the 1960s and 1970s. more

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“I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March.”

Thinking Men Kind Important Hands Black Class Millions Struggle Middle Example Acknowledge Rely Middle Class March Commodity

Author:Angela Davis

“I think it's important for us to recognize that although historically black communities have been very progressive with respect to issues of race and with respect to struggles for racial equality, that does not necessarily translate into progressive positions on gender issues, progressive positions on issues of sexuality and in the latter 1990s we have to recognize the intersectionality, the interconnectedness of all of these institutions and attitudes.”

“Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap.”

Men Young Community White Class Streets Middle Brother Rap Young Man Middle Class Rapper Misogyny White Man Gangsters Identifying Gangster Rap

Author:Angela Davis

“I can't really blame a lot of young sisters and brothers who believe that education has anything to offer them. Because as a matter of fact, it has nothing to offer them. Suppose they do get a high school diploma that is meaningful. What kind of job is awaiting them. The jobs that used to be available to working class people are not there as a result of the de-industrialization of this economy.”

“You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.”

People Decent Criticize Decent Life

Author:Angela Davis

“Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.”

People Kind Young Black Economy Produce Materials Drug Gains Alternatives Black People

Author:Angela Davis

“Obviously there are some organizations that go out on the street and say we want an end to the capitalist system. But obviously that is not going to happen as a result of just assuming that stance.”

Want Ends Happens Results Streets Organization Assuming Capitalist Stance

Author:Angela Davis

“I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.”

Thinking Needs Today Black Community Crosses Black Community

Author:Angela Davis

“The de industrialization of the US. economy based on the migration of corporations into third world areas where labor is very cheap and thus more profitable for these companies creates on the one hand conditions in those countries that encourage people to emigrate to the US. in search of a better life. On the other hand, it creates conditions here that send more black people into the alternative economies, the drug economies, women into economies in sexual services, and sends them into the prison industrial complex.”

“We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.”

Black Community Black Community Homogeneous

Author:Angela Davis