Racism, In The First Place, Is A

Our Leaders Were Assassinated, One Of The Things I Was Reading Today Was - 28 Panthers Were Killed By The Police But 300 Black Panthers Were Killed By Other Panthers Just Within - Internecine Warfare. It Just Began To Seem Like We Were In An Impossible Task Given What We Were Facing.

The De Industrialization Of The Us. Economy Based On The Migration Of Corporations Into Third World Areas Where Labor Is Very Cheap And Thus More Profitable For These Companies Creates On The One Hand Conditions In Those Countries That Encourage People To Emigrate To The Us. In Search Of A Better Life. On The Other Hand, It Creates Conditions Here That Send More Black People Into The Alternative Economies, The Drug Economies, Women Into Economies In Sexual Services, And Sends Them Into The Prison Industrial Complex.

I Think That Has To Do With My Awareness That In A Sense We All Have A Certain Measure Of Responsibility To Those Who Have Made It Possible For Us To Take Advantage Of The Opportunities.

Justice Is Indivisible. You Can't Decide Who Gets Civil Rights And Who Doesn't.

As A Black Woman, My Politics And Political Affiliation Are Bound Up With And Flow From Participation In My People's Struggle For Liberation, And With The Fight Of Oppressed People All Over The World Against American Imperialism.