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'Angela Davis : We used to reflect there was a black community'

'We used to believe there was a black community'



With her towering afro and radical rhetoric, Angela Davis was one of the iconic faces of black politics in 1970s America. She talks to Gary Younge about Barack Obama, the racism of the inky middle class, and how it feels to be remembered as a hairdo

Thursday November 8, 2007
The Guardian

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Angela Davis was intrigued to see recently that a significant number of new black women to whom she was delivering a chat were wearing images of her from the 70s on their T-shirts. She asked what the image meant to them. "They said it made them feel powerful and connected to other movements," she says. "It was really quite moving. It really had nothing to do with me. They were using this image as an verbalization of who they would like to be and what they would appreciate to do. I've given up trying to challenge commodification in that respect. It's an continual battle and you never win any victories."

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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” So said Angela Davis, 78, America’s most well-known living revolutionary. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama, one of the most incendiary of the racist Jim Crow southern cities, in a neighborhood called “Dynamite Hill,” due to attacks on Black people by their pale neighbors. Davis would rise to become an international beacon of anti-racist and feminist radicalism over decades, expanding her vision to include LGBTQ civil rights, Palestinian rights and her life’s perform against America’s carceral system.

A extreme political activist and theorist, Davis gained fame in the 1960s and 1970s as a public figure in the Black Civil Rights, Black Power and Black and feminist liberation movements. Pivoting off the Serenity prayer, Davis’s most famous quote is the one that threads through all her activism:  “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

Davis continues to do that work now, 60 years after enrolling at Brandeis University as one of only three Black students. After graduating from Brandeis, Davis studied with Frankfurt schoo

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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.

From the segregated southern states to the height of academia, via inclusion on the “FBI Most Wanted” list, Angela Davis has lived an extraordinary animation. Angela is a political activist, academic, author and civil rights champion, campaigning and writing about racial justice, women’s rights, and criminal justice reform.

Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1944, she was accepted on a de-segregation programme to attend high college in New York. From there, she gained three degrees in the US and Germany and is now professor emerita at the University of California, in its History of Consciousness Department, and a former director of the university’s Feminist Studies Department; despite having employment difficulties in the late 60s, due to her membership of the American Communist Party. Around this period, she was also associated with The Black Panther Party, and was wrongly accused of murder and remanded in jail. Although branded as a terrorist by the FBI, people around the world, including John Lennon

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“There is often as much heterogeneity within a jet community, or more heterogeneity, than in cross-racial communities. An African-American woman might find it much easier to work together with a Chicana than with another black woman whose politics of race, class, gender, and sexuality would place her in an entirely different community. What is problematic is the degree to which nationalism has become a paradigm for our community-building processes. We need to travel away form such arguments as “Well, she’s not really black.” “She comes from such-and-such a place.” “Her hair is…” “She doesn’t listen to ‘our’ music,” and so forth. What counts as shadowy is not so essential as our political pledge to engage in anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic work.” Angela Davis, speaking on “Building Co