Prisons Do Not Disappear Problems, They Disappear

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.

It Is Both Humiliating And Humbling To Discover That A Single Generation After The Events That Constructed Me As A Public Personality, I Am Remembered As A Hairdo.

I Never Saw Myself As An Individual Who Had Any Particular Leadership Powers.

I Don't Think It's Necessary To Feel Guilty. Because I Know That I'm Still Doing The Work That Is Going To Help More Sisters And Brothers To Challenge The Whole Criminal Justice System, And I'm Trying To Use Whatever Knowledge I Was Able To Acquire To Continue To Do The Work In Our Communities That Will Move Us Forward.

There Is So Much History Of This Racist Violence That Simply To Bring One Person To Justice Is Not Going To Disturb The Whole Racist Edifice.