You Can't Criticize People For Wanting To

Racism, In The First Place, Is A Weapon Used By The Wealthy To Increase The Profits They Bring In By Paying Black Workers Less For Their Work.

And I Guess What I Would Say Is That We Can't Think Narrowly About Movements For Black Liberation And We Can't Necessarily See This Class Division As Simply A Product Or A Certain Strategy That Black Movements Have Developed For Liberation.

That's True But I Think The Contemporary Problem That We Are Facing Increasing Numbers Of Black People And Other People Of Color Being Thrown Into A Status That Involves Work In Alternative Economies And Increasing Numbers Of People Who Are Incarcerated.

I'm Involved In The Work Around Prison Rights In General.

We Have Inherited A Fear Of Memories Of Slavery. It Is As If To Remember And Acknowledge Slavery Would Amount To Our Being Consumed By It. As A Matter Of Fact, In The Popular Black Imagination, It Is Easier For Us To Construct Ourselves As Children Of Africa, As The Sons And Daughters Of Kings And Queens, And Thereby Ignore The Middle Passage And Centuries Of Enforced Servitude In The Americas. Although Some Of Us Might Indeed Be The Descendants Of African Royalty, Most Of Us Are Probably Descendants Of Their Subjects, The Daughters And Sons Of African Peasants Or Workers.