What This Country Needs Is More Unemployed

First Of All, I Didn't Suggest That We Should Simply Get Rid Of All Prisons.

I Think The Importance Of Doing Activist Work Is Precisely Because It Allows You To Give Back And To Consider Yourself Not As A Single Individual Who May Have Achieved Whatever But To Be A Part Of An Ongoing Historical Movement.

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

Well I Teach In The History Of Consciousness Department At The University Of California, Santa Cruz. So That's My Primary Work. I Lecture On Various Campuses And In Various Communities Across The Country And Other Parts Of The World.

We Cannot Assume That People By Virtue Of The Fact That They Are Black Are Going To Associate Themselves With Progressive Political Struggles. We Need To Divest Ourselves The Kinds Of Strategies That Assume That Black Unity Black Political Unity Is Possible.