Angie Davis

And of course in my own case where, The FBI has put Black militant Angela Davis on its list of the 10 most wanted fugitives. And with Angela Davis, the power of the Black intellect. One of the things that we really have to talk about coming to Christmas is the whole question of crime. What does it mean to be a criminal in this society? That had to be broken up. In my case, Ronald Reagan was the governor of California. Richard Nixon was the president of the U. S. The whole apparatus of the state was set up against me. And they really meant to send me to the death chamber in order to make a point. The actions of the FBI and apprehending Angela Davis are a rather remarkable story again. The system tried to put the sister on trial and the sister said, no, we put you on trial. She didn't go press her hair. She was facing major time. They would have been in their little white gloves all praying to Jesus. She came in And she devastated the prosecution and walked out of there free. The question is, how did you get there? You get there by confrontation, violence? Oh, is that the question you were asking? I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. After the four young girls who lived next door to me, I was very good friends with the sister of another one. My sister was very good friends with all three of them. My mother taught one of them in her class and they went down and what they find, they found limbs and heads, strewn all over the place. I remember from the time I was very small, I remember the sounds of bombs exploding across the street, our house shaking. I remember my father having to have guns that is disposal at all times because of the fact that at any moment someone, we might expect to be attacked. I mean, that's why when someone asked me about violence, I just stood there and said, I just find it incredible because what it means is that the person who is asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa. Thank you.