“I am just so happy that I have lived long enough to witness this moment,” activist Angela Davis tells hereandnow. “And I think that I see myself as witnessing this moment for all of those who lost their lives in the struggle over the decades.”
As politicians and activists across the country try to reenvision law enforcement, Black revolutionary Angela Davis says reform can only go so far in addressing the inherent racism in policing.
For decades, Davis was an active member of the Communist Party and the Black Panther Party, which the FBI sought to disrupt under its counterintelligence program. J. Edgar Hoover once said the Black Panther Party “represents the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.” Before eliminating racism, Davis believes we must eradicate racial capitalism — a term designed to “encourage people to think about the ways in which capitalism and racism are interlinked.”Police departments and prison systems are"the most dramatic expression of structural racism,” Davis recently said in an interview with Ruptly.
“Now we can think about funding agencies and individuals and organizations that will help address issues of health — physical health, mental health,” she says. “This is the opportunity for us to begin to reimagine the meaning of these states.” Angela Davis raises her fist to give her power salute as she sits in the courtroom at Marin Civic Center in San Rafael, Ca., on March 16, 1971.
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