I know who I am... I know, for example, who Bobby Seale and Angela Davis are.
Who the hell are Trump or Clarence Thomas? Who the hell are the Trump party adherents who were formerly conservatives?
Where is their coherence or consistency?
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In 1969, I witnessed Bobby Seale being led out, in shackles, of the back of the New Haven court house. I stood among some who were vocally protesting his treatment by authorities. I wasn't yet old enough to shave but I was curious about what it meant to be on the "right side of history" and pay a price for it. Did my proximity put me in the protestors' "camp"? Were the protestors complicit in the offenses Seale was charged with, by protesting his treatment? Nixon thought so, I am certain.
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IOW, I've been at this a long time. My discernment has stood the test of time. Your "delivery" is programmed, IOW, not reinforced by
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If you attempt to "lump everyone in" who sympathizes with peaceful, BLM protestors with the intent to delegitimize their demands
for equal justice, you present as incoherent, shrill, and pathetic as Trump.
en.wikipedia.org
" A
ngela Yvonne Davis (born1944) is an American political activist, philosopher, academic and author. She is a professor at the
University of California, Santa Cruz. Ideologically a
Marxist, Davis was a longtime member of the
Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and is a founding member of the
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). She is the author of over ten books on
class,
feminism,
race, and the
US prison system. ...
...In 1970, guns belonging to Davis were used in an
armed takeover of a courtroom in Marin County,
California, in which four people were killed. Prosecuted for three capital felonies, including conspiracy to murder, she was held in jail for over a year before being acquitted of all charges in 1972. She visited
Eastern Bloc countries in the 1970s and during the 1980s was twice the Communist Party's candidate for
Vice President; at this time, she also held the position of professor of
ethnic studies at
San Francisco State University. Much of her work focused on
the abolition of prisons and in 1997 she co-founded
Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the
prison–industrial complex. In 1991, amid the
dissolution of the Soviet Union, she was part of a faction in the Communist Party that broke away to establish the CPUSA. Also in 1991, she joined the
feminist studies department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she became department director before retiring in 2008. Since then she has continued to write and remained active in movements such as
Occupy and the
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.
Davis has received various awards, including the Soviet Union's
Lenin Peace Prize. Accused of supporting political violence, she has sustained criticism from the highest levels of the US government. She has also been criticized for supporting the Soviet Union and its satellites. Davis has been inducted into the
National Women's Hall of Fame.
[6] In 2020 she was listed as the 1971 "Woman of the Year" in
Time magazine's "100 Women of the Year" edition, ..."
