Racism Cannot Be Separated From Capitalism.

We Don’t Go Further Than What Marx Called The Exchange Value Of The Actual Object - We Don’t Think About The Relations That That Object Embodies - And Were Important To The Production Of That Object Whether It’s Our Food Or Our Clothes Or Our I-pads Or All The Materials We Use To Acquire An Education At An Institution Like This. That Would Really Be Revolutionary To Develop A Habit Of Imagining The Human Relations And Non Human Relations Behind All Of The Objects That Constitute Our Environment.

Because It Would Be Too Agonizing To Cope With The Possibility That Anyone, Including Our­ Selves, Could Become A Prisoner, We Tend To Think Of The Prison As Disconnected From Our Own Lives. This Is Even True For Some Of Us, Women As Well As Men, Who Have Already Experienced Imprisonment.

We Still Have To Struggle Against The Impact Of Racism, But It Doesn't Happen In The Same Way. I Think It Is Much More Complicated Today Than It Ever Was.

What I Think Is Different Today Is The Lack Of Political Connection Between The Black Middle Class And The Increasing Numbers Of Black People Who Are More Impoverished Than Ever Before.

We Have Been Basically Persuaded That We Should Not Talk About Racism.