We Have Been Basically Persuaded That We

Feminism Involves So Much More Than Gender Equality And It Involves So Much More Than Gender. Feminism Must Involve Consciousness Of Capitalism (i Mean The Feminism That I Relate To, And There Are Multiple Feminisms, Right). So It Has To Involve A Consciousness Of Capitalism And Racism And Colonialism And Post-colonialities, And Ability And More Genders Than We Can Even Imagine And More Sexualities Than We Ever Thought We Could Name.

I Think In Black Communities Today We Need To Encourage A Lot More Cross Racial Organizing.

We Have Inherited A Fear Of Memories Of Slavery. It Is As If To Remember And Acknowledge Slavery Would Amount To Our Being Consumed By It. As A Matter Of Fact, In The Popular Black Imagination, It Is Easier For Us To Construct Ourselves As Children Of Africa, As The Sons And Daughters Of Kings And Queens, And Thereby Ignore The Middle Passage And Centuries Of Enforced Servitude In The Americas. Although Some Of Us Might Indeed Be The Descendants Of African Royalty, Most Of Us Are Probably Descendants Of Their Subjects, The Daughters And Sons Of African Peasants Or Workers.

I Think It Is Important To Acknowledge The Extent To Which The Black Middle Class Tends To Rely On A Kind Of Imagined Struggle That Gets Projected Into Commodities Like Kente Cloth For Example On The One Hand And Images Like The Million Man March.

A Fair Trial Would Have Been No Trial At All.