Civil rights icon Angela Davis just got a civil rights award rescinded — and she thinks it's because of her support for Palestine.
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00:00Racism is so deeply embedded into the fabric of the society that I would say
00:06that practically all white people are embodied to a certain extent racist
00:14attitudes.
00:30My father participated in armed patrols because they they had to protect the
00:43community they get out every night in shifts of course with their weapons and
00:49they drive around the community to make sure there weren't any strange races
00:53there to bomb, because they bombed houses all over.
01:12When I decided that I was going to devote my life primarily to the struggle
01:21for the liberation of black people and to the struggle for socialism, I decided
01:29at that point I suppose that my life belonged to that struggle.
01:51The experience that we had in building the campaign for my freedom taught us a
02:03lot of lessons, taught us how to go about creating a movement that can effectively
02:12push back that repression and how did we do it?
02:21I left the Communist Party not because I felt differently about criticizing
02:36capitalism and socialist futures, but because at the time there were
02:44constraints against the further democratization of the internal
02:48structure of the organization.