Angela Davis' ancestors arrived on the Mayflower.

in findingyourroots •  2 years ago 

This is not a "gotcha." American history is far more complicated than race activists would have us believe. We are all part of one race, the human race, a race that has endlessly divided against itself, probably since before we were a distinct species, based on superficial traits. And we are still doing it.

What is the intersectionality here? To be both oppressor and oppressed at the same time; what could that mean? What does that imply about power structures?

Davis has far more in common with a regular old American patriot than she realizes; just as you, too, have more in common with the people you think you're nothing like than you could ever hope to realize.

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