“Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.”
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I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.