Davis made the admission while speaking with filmmaker Ava DuVernay in an interview with Vanity Fair.
In the interview Davis warns that the violent BLM and Antifa protests across the country are the early stages of a larger far-left "revolution."
Davis claims the civil unrest is needed to bring about lasting radical social and economic change.
"Sometimes we assume the most important work is the dramatic work โ the street demonstrations," Davis told DuVernay.
"I like the term that [Marxist cultural critic] John Berger used: Demonstrations are 'rehearsals for revolution'."
Breitbart.com reports: Angela Davis, who was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA, also expressed sympathy for rioters who are tearing down historic statues: "Those statues are our reminders that the history of the United States of America is a history of racism. So it's natural that people would try to bring down those symbols."
Comment: Murder is a "natural" reaction to someone you think is oppressing you, too. Doesn't mean either is legal, or right.
In their Vanity Fair conversation, Davis told DuVernay that the Black Lives Matter riots and "defund the police" movement represent the culmination of decades of radical left-wing activism.
Comment: More like the culmination of decades of critical theory indoctrination and grievance-mongering.
"The protests offered people an opportunity to join in this collective demand to bring about deep change, radical change," Davis said. "Defund the police, abolish policing as we know it now. These are the same arguments that we've been making for such a long time about the prison system and the whole criminal justice system. It was as if all of these decades of work by so many people, who received no credit at all, came to fruition."
Comment: It will be a bitter fruit. Already is, but it will only get worse.
Angela Davis also equated capitalism with racism. "Capitalism has always been racial capitalism," she told DuVernay. "Wherever we see capitalism, we see the influence and the exploitation of racism."
Comment: Nonsense, and total ignorance to boot.
She also pushed for free healthcare and childcare as a way of redressing racism. "Not only should there be free education, but there should be free childcare and there should be free health care as well. All of these issues are coming to a head. This is, as you said, a racial reckoning. A reexamination of the role that racism has played in the creation of the United States of America."
Ava DuVernay acknowledged in a tweet that the editor of her interview with Davis was Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author and journalist whose 2014 Atlantic article "The Case for Reparations" reignited the push for slavery reparations.
Reader Comments
R.C.
I'm trying to develop a model for whatever messed up rational seems to be compelling folks these days. Too much lead in the water is my strongest theory so far, though. It's the least sinister.
I read somewhere that math was racist. It was too dumb for me to follow, and there's so much of it to digest.
R.C.
It's hard to speak to whose side they're on. Their leadership doesn't seek the people's approval. The Sheriff Department has a better record in this regard, I think.
Is it worth considering how much Paxil the world has eaten in the last 20 years? Did the paxil kids hit puberty sideways and this is what antifa is? I mean it's been pretty trendy for a while to put folks out to pharm for a while now, and for just about any reason.
I really struggle to understand what is going on. At first is was like studying human nature, because it's simply interesting. Now it feels more desperate than that. These social conditions look historic to me, considering the scale especially, but I think it's also a little weird too. I suppose tyrants have existed before and held spectacular kingdoms, but did they achieve them with such bizarre methods? Covid 19 is creepy.
RC
amerikans have consumed more than 80% of the legal psychotropics in the past decade in the entire world, 66% of the anti-depressants (4.5% 0f the world's population) the only people that consider a color depression (blue)...it is no accident that in nation of puritans more than 30% r diagnosed w mental illness--in European, S amerikan nation is it more than 6%
The original click bait, my thought, after all, we have all become click bait junkies when it comes to the so called news.
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It is my understanding, that the Laureen Hobbs character was created, by the actions and ideology of Angela Davis at the time. Could be Wrong.
Most interesting IMO
Statement of Angela Davis to Jim Jones over radio phone-patch September 10 1977....[Link]
Jim Jones (disturbing)....[Link]
Those that cannot learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
Reminds me of the diatribe, that is going on with the social discord in the US today, and also in some western countries, and of course, the political dialogue.
The way I see it at this time, the US is caught up in a Catch 22 Situation. To put it very simply, dammed if you do dammed if you don't. And that is the dilemma that Trump is caught up in.
Support Trump, all hell will break loose. Support Biden, again all hell will be set loose.
The age old strategy of pathological ideology, divide and conquer. But this time, it's for keeps, the outcome will determine, the future for the peoples not only in the US, but how it will impact the rest of the World.
And this will be determined by how many are willing to fight for body, mind and conscience and more of more importance, truth and reality.
That is my thought.
Seems she learned something in the meantime, but not enough ...
Just giving you a helping hand out of the bar.