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As Soon As I Got Out Of Jail, As Soon As My Trial Was Over, First Of All, During The Time I Was In Jail, There Was An Organization Called The National United Committee To Free Angela Davis, And I Insisted That It Be Called National United Committee To Free Angela Davis And All Political Prisoners.

Prisons Do Not Disappear Problems, They Disappear Human Beings.

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.

I Think In Black Communities Today We Need To Encourage A Lot More Cross Racial Organizing.

We Have To Talk About Liberating Minds As Well As Liberating Society.