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informative
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fast-paced
I read this via audio and at about the 25% mark, I paused and immediately went online to purchase a physical copy.
Angela Davis is timeless. This book was written 8 years ago but is still relevant to this day (especially when critiquing the current administrations actions and words this week.)
A few notable highlights that I was able to catch via audio:
"The international community and the western media are always asking, as a precondition, that Palestinians stop the violence. How would you explain the popularity of the narrative that the oppressed have to ensure the safety of the oppressors?"
"I tell you that in the US we are at such a disadvantage because we do not know how to talk about the genocide inflicted on indigenous people. We do not know how to talk about slavery. Otherwise it would not have been assumed that simply because of the election of one black man to the presidency that we would leap forward into a post racial era. We do not acknowledge that we all live on colonized land and in the meantime native Americans live in impoverished conditions on reservations…"
"We do not know how to talk about slavery except perhaps in a framework of victim and victimizer; one that continues to polarize and implicate."
"I'm trying to suggest that there are connections between the militarization of the police in the US. Which provides a different context for us to analyze the ongoing continuing proliferation of racist police violence and the continuous assault on people in occupied Palestine, the West Bank and especially Gaza…"
Angela Davis is timeless. This book was written 8 years ago but is still relevant to this day (especially when critiquing the current administrations actions and words this week.)
A few notable highlights that I was able to catch via audio:
"The international community and the western media are always asking, as a precondition, that Palestinians stop the violence. How would you explain the popularity of the narrative that the oppressed have to ensure the safety of the oppressors?"
"I tell you that in the US we are at such a disadvantage because we do not know how to talk about the genocide inflicted on indigenous people. We do not know how to talk about slavery. Otherwise it would not have been assumed that simply because of the election of one black man to the presidency that we would leap forward into a post racial era. We do not acknowledge that we all live on colonized land and in the meantime native Americans live in impoverished conditions on reservations…"
"We do not know how to talk about slavery except perhaps in a framework of victim and victimizer; one that continues to polarize and implicate."
"I'm trying to suggest that there are connections between the militarization of the police in the US. Which provides a different context for us to analyze the ongoing continuing proliferation of racist police violence and the continuous assault on people in occupied Palestine, the West Bank and especially Gaza…"