I Don't Think It's Necessary To Feel

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.

Racism Is A Much More Clandestine, Much More Hidden Kind Of Phenomenon, But At The Same Time It's Perhaps Far More Terrible Than It's Ever Been.

It Is Essential To Resist The Depiction Of History As The Work Of Heroic Individuals

Because It Would Be Too Agonizing To Cope With The Possibility That Anyone, Including Our­ Selves, Could Become A Prisoner, We Tend To Think Of The Prison As Disconnected From Our Own Lives. This Is Even True For Some Of Us, Women As Well As Men, Who Have Already Experienced Imprisonment.

I Think It’s The Right Moment To Talk About It Because It Is Part Of A Revolutionary Perspective - How Can We Not Only Discover More Compassionate Relations With Human Beings But How Can We Develop Compassionate Relations With The Other Creatures With Whom We Share This Planet And That Would Mean Challenging The Whole Capitalist Industrial Form Of Food Production.