Angela Davis: We can't eradicate racism without eradicating racial capitalism

[@evonmaywell2850]

Thank you, Ms Davis.

[@alfredoalcantar8691]

For what

[@rrice1705]

@@alfredoalcantar8691 For reminding us that even in academic circles you can find nutjobs hellbent on reducing the US to the status of a banana republic.

[@richardlynch1094]

You can't be an anti-capitalist without also being an abolitionist.

[@terrathunderstorms3701]

She must be so proud of being a Mayflower descendant. When will she pay reparations for that? It would be very 'equitable' of her.

[@rogerforsberg3910]

For someone seeking ideological & dogmatice purity this fact must have been quite a "revoltin' development" to learn.

[@redhawk567]

Please remember the Standing Rock people. Also the people who stand on Mauna Kea in defiance of their sacred Mountain being desecrated. It is a matter of money and power. Shameful; wherever it's ugly head arises.

[@poodlesrock6552]

RedHawk Your comment made my heart and brain bound. So, if capitalism (killing the poor over and over again) leads voluntarily or involuntarily, to imperialism and expansionism and subjugation of anyone they can (slavery in its various forms) and eventually, capitalism will inhimilate itself..? That is of course, if they don't expand to live outside our planet? I think they are desperate and grazy enough to hold on to the last piece of a gold stock in an off-shore bank? By the way, do they have ATMs on the ISS?

[@9nineinches287]

I am on the clock here in Melrose Park Illinois USA watching this video.. Lunchtime..... Thank you for posting this information

[@robinholbrook6576]

ANGELA! I marched with her in Austin back in the 60’s!

[@kv315c]

What she says is basically forcing people to be humble. Which is undoable, just fantasy. People cannot be forced to care for each other.

[@12jay33lee24]

Ur old af!😂😭

[@colhannanjr]

Why?

[@jariusgreen771]

@@kv315c not true what she wants is the Utopia of communism through the over-through of capitalism which will come from the upbringing of socialism, and while doing this she is also erasing a chunk of power given to the upper class racist white men at the same time, but I strongly agree with you in a sense that communism is a fantasy because us Americans value our ability of free speech and other “human rights”

[@fpicc8807]

@@jariusgreen771 What about upper class Asian-Americans? Indian-American males are some of the most wealthy and affluent in our country. Do they count?

[@colemanclan6287]

Reaganism or Neo-Liberalism has poisoned the poor man's chances for equality.

[@rast7408]

ANGELA ❤ANGELA🖤ANGELA💚RASPECT MY QUEEN👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽I AM A FAN OF URS 4IVER🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@calichef1962]

Oh, she's been my heroine forever, too! I grew up in a very liberal family that lived in a *very* conservative small northern California town. I learned to read by reading the family's daily newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle. If they hadn't wanted me to be a little radical they probably would have taken a more conservative newspaper, like the Sacramento Bee. I was the little freckle-faced eight year-old girl with long, auburn braids and big green eyes, who wondered why everyone laughed when they'd ask me if I was going to register as a Republican or a Democrat when I grew up and I told them I was going to be a Black Panther! I was bright and I knew the Panthers were RIGHT. Modern research has shown that children are _born_ knowing what's fair and what's not fair. Even infants that can't sit up on their own yet know when one puppet is mean to the other puppets. When given the opportunity the infants will grab and hold the mistreated puppet as if they were protecting and comforting it, and then they pushed the "mean" puppet away. It's impressive that we are _born_ knowing right from wrong, good from bad, and fair from unfair. Very impressive, indeed!

[@rast7408]

@@calichef1962 BLESS UP 👊🏽🙏🏽⬆️ RASPECT ❤❤

[@calichef1962]

@@rast7408 Thank you, Ras T! I just never let anyone teach me how to be mean or unfair to others. It's really not an accomplishment, it's something *everyone* _should_ have done, but didn't.

[@CrowdPleeza]

How have socialist and communist responded to this? "Criticism of Centrally Planned Economies The concept of central planning is subject to heavy criticism, especially from scholars in the Austrian school of economics. One major critique, associated with Friedrich Hayek, is that central planners cannot efficiently respond to supply and demand. In a market economy, businesses respond to price signals by increasing or decreasing the production of their goods. In a planned economy, there are no price signals, so planners cannot accurately forecast which products will be needed or not adapt to changing conditions. This means that there may be unnecessary shortages or surpluses of certain goods. Another critique is that command economies may be less efficient, due to the lack of competitive pressures. While private companies must avoid waste in order to remain profitable, enterprises in a command economy have no pressure to earn profits or reduce expenses." From: Centrally Planned Economy Investopedia

[@CrowdPleeza]

Adam Smith spoke against colonialism. So capitalism and colonialism aren't connected. Look up: ADAM SMITH'S ECONOMIC CASE AGAINST IMPERIALISM

[@alanhansmannkurtcobain8811]

There's an interesting article on Fee about how AntiCapitalism is the root of slavery. Please look it up. It claims that the slaveowners were pre bourgeois antiCapitalists who were too privileged to pay their workers and make profits.

[@KathleenMcCormickLCSWMPH]

Still keepin on after all these years. You are a real hero who has remained consistent since the 60s. Thank you, Angela. Used to love bumping into you when I was a student at SF State. You embodied the ethos that I have always wanted to aspire to.

[@alfredoalcantar8691]

She is race

[@nobodyisprfct]

We don't and didn't have capitalism in the 1960's. We started losing capitalism in 1913 and it was eradicated after 1930's The New Deal. We have had a mixed economy every since then. WE do not have a free market system but just a marketed system controlled partially by the federal reserve and subsidies.

[@rrice1705]

I'm sure Stalin and Mao would agree, if they were here and could stop killing their own citizenry long enough to do so.

[@derekziebarth]

Too bad she doesn't actually take advice from people who actually came from the straps of slavery like SB Fuller

[@SanSan-mb3vg]

A lot of people are traumatized by their race. They are going insane. America is best country for minorities. But people in America they hate their country and want to ruin it. They want to destroy it. They are full of anger, envy, and a malignant spirit.

[@april_showers97]

QUEEN ANGELA HAS SPOKEN. 🗣🗣

[@brooklyngarciafranco4139]

Ms. Davis will always be so inspiring, thank you

[@gmork1090]

Why? Because she got away with murder? Because she supported Fidel Castro? Because she's friends with murderous communist leaders? Because she advocated release of black panthers who tortured one of their own to death over 3 days? Because she's fine with discrimination against male homosexuals? Because she'd rather people be tortured to death in socialist/communist regimes than be free in an 'evil capitalist pig' country? She believes in total government control and if you believe otherwise you have done absolutely zero research. She's just like Mother Teresa who'd rather have the Catholic church get richer at any cost as long as she could be seen giving a cup of water to a child during a photo op.

[@rrice1705]

Yes, she inspired me not to be afraid to point out that even an academic and widely-read author can be completely bereft of wisdom.

[@ChrystalClear]

Always have been my Shero, Thanks Ms Davis.

[@earthn1447]

Wore my hair in an 'afro' in homage to her in the 70's.

[@colibriverde]

Right on, Angela!

[@TheArtist808]

Angela Davis with the truth

[@PapiElric]

Hello and support from France.

[@robinholbrook6576]

Papi Elric THANK YOU!

[@PapiElric]

@@robinholbrook6576 You are welcome.

[@Edward-bm7vw]

What a pseudointellectual. No evidence, just empty rhetoric.

[@JoeKerr-su6xf]

I’m always seeing cool people get interviewed on this show 😊

[@TheMrPeteChannel]

Long live the free market.

[@ultrad27]

Capitalism has got nothing to do with racism.

[@AndreaS-ru3yw]

Explain yourself

[@ultrad27]

@@AndreaS-ru3yw Capitalism is simply private citizens controlling the market instead of government. Racism is form of collectivism. There's no correlation between the two.

[@guyoflife]

@@ultrad27 it makes sense for capitalism to fuel racism based on economic competition and tribalism and for the big capitalists to treat minorities as an underclass, promoting this divide so the working class can't unite against them. You can't just take economics and social relations and expect them to be separated in a vacuum. It doesn't work.

[@ultrad27]

@@guyoflife you're redefining capitalism. Capitalism is simply the free market without government control. You're collectivist and moral issues have nothing to do with the free market.

[@guyoflife]

@@ultrad27 capitalism is based on the accumulation of capital by private owners, wage labor and products generally produced for trade in a market. That's why it's called CAPITALism and not just trade. Capitalism emerged out of feudalism and is only a few hundred years old. Markets have existed far before. If you want words to mean something you can't just slap an ideological definition on it. Also you're trying to separate the economy from social relations which is impossible. Markets in general involve competition. Capitalism involves workers competiting.

[@carlalinton1156]

Carla Linton. I thank Ms. Davis.

[@rrice1705]

If Davis is truly a proponent of replacing capitalism with socialism, then she must intend to eliminate racial disparities by ensuring everyone is equally poor, oppressed, and miserable. It makes perfect sense that she is a professor, for only an academic could be smart enough to understand the nuances of Marxism and socialism and at the same time stupid enough to think either could work in the real-world. And don't try to tell me the Scandinavian countries practice socialism. In an economics/structure of the economy sense, they are more capitalist than the US. They once attempted to organize their economies along those lines, but gave up in the late 1980s.

[@4.6kj]

Actually it’s the complete opposite. Socialism refers to a government where she feels she’s directly involved. Communism is no government rather a community. America used to be communist technically a community under a social contract (the constitution) except the market was 100% free. (You could still live off the land, you didn’t have to trade or you could trade if you choose to. But everyone needs big brother to protect them from nothing.

[@4.6kj]

Land is a commodity that is bought and sold if you wanted to be “free” and live off the land you literally can’t… the government will find you. Your gun alone won’t defend your family. But a COMMUNity will…

[@lashay8715]

✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾

[@tanyawilliams1887]

Dumb.

[@shahzeb68]

@@tanyawilliams1887 you? Yes

[@purplepeoplesparty2368]

Spot on! Absolute right.

[@alanhansmannkurtcobain8811]

I think she makes sense. Actually, I'm a Democrat who isn't prejudiced. I'm a Capitalist, but Liberal and mildly Libertarian and Conservative. Yes, racist Capitalism is not real equitable or ethical Capitalism. Corporations are Capitalist, but they no longer discriminate, and they do accept mild Socialism through offering workers benefits.

[@derekziebarth]

This is why Samuel Fuller said wherever there is capitalism and it's not the color of people skin that's holding them back it's the lack of knowledge of the capitalist system

[@markd.holloman5187]

AD still sharp! Keep up the fight queen!❤❤

[@mypal3561]

it still is, the slaves are the revolving door jobs and temp and immigrant labor. disposable. they still prefer slaves to actually letting citizens have anything to do with production; knowing they'll change the bad things and unionize. so non english speakers are prefered or children who are less likely or educated to organise themselves.

[@1virgosmith]

Legend

[@coreyslater2801]

She forgets to mention Marx's hatred of blacks and jews. Kind of cherry picks the facts she likes. So is this woman promoting racism?

[@danielmarx2791]

She's talking about Robinson's critique of Marxism, which explicitly states how Marx did not adequately account for race in his scholarship. Davis, like countless other scholars, have built upon Marx and added to his scholarship.

[@AllenSentinery]

I think she's a Capitalist, just an antiCapitalist one refusing avarice.

[@damianedwards8827]

Big up to Angels Davis. Love you Angela. Rockin the fro too. Classic

[@dandun30]

all those books and she hasn't realised the problem is education

[@AlexPletcherPhoto]

yep.

[@robinholbrook6576]

dan dun I tend to believe this, too. Through education we learn NOT to be fearful and it is fear that leads to hate. Education leads to enlightenment and I always see that that as LITERALLY having the sun shine on ALL things so everything is SEEN CLEARLY! Then there is no misunderstanding and just as 2 plus 2 equals 4 we can work together to create a world where all share EQUALLY in a good life for ourselves and our children. THAT is the UNIVERSAL desire after all!

[@eaglesnagtree2025]

And racism isn’t linked to Socialism and Communism? You lie by omission, by dismissing any fact that doesn’t fit your predetermined view. Aren’t you tired of this?

[@smartiepancake]

Buzz phrases are not concepts, contrary to the professor's claim. She offers no conceptual content, no information. She takes 2:37 of our time and says nothing. PS Read Henry George

[@cushiteone]

Marxists

[@Supiragon1998]

I love when they honestly say stuff like this out loud

[@michellegrinder9484]

we need communism so everyone is poor and not just me

[@michellegrinder9484]

@@Andre-hm5vo lmao..your never taking this country without a fight commie

[@michellegrinder9484]

@@Andre-hm5vo no u need useful idiots like yourself that are dumb enough to fall for the bullshit you push...ever see how racist china is to blacks...and communism socialism....makes no difference, they always end up totalitarian dictatorships,while calling themselves democratic

[@Andre-hm5vo]

Michelle please don't hate the messenger.

[@alanhansmannkurtcobain8811]

I think in an ideal society there is freedom, not such a hard emphasis on strict ideologies, race, politics, economics, or making total nonprofits out of workers and commodities who are enslaved to race and political polarization. I'm not saying I'm a Communist or Socialist, sure, making profits could be nice and help people do so, but the reputation nonprofits have are the same reputations anyone rich and successful has. I just like all Americans who are nice to me and I respect my education. It really is gross how much prejudice there is in society about race, politics, religions, economics, and ideologies. I'm trying to make the World a better place, that's why I'm a Capitalist. I care about workers, but I don't label myself any strict ideological Marxist belief anymore because it turns off consumers. Real Capitalism is not racist or strict.

[@moonnugget4598]

Brilliant woman

[@eturnall5658]

WHY WOULD [PEOP;LE THINK CAPITALISM IS A GOOD THING . YOU WORK HARD AND A PERSON GETS TO CAPITIALIZE FROM THE BIGER PICTURE AND YOU DONT . IAM SURPRIZED THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE LINED UP FOR EXPLOITATION . SOME ONE HAS FARMS WITH SIMPLE MINDED SHEEP . DOES NOT SEEM HARD TO KEEP SUCH SHEEP . THEY ALWAYS COME BACK FOR MORE

[@everythingviral972]

So you're less a sheep to let the government pick your job for you? Show me a more successful economic model than capitalism. All of these idiots calling for socialism would actually hate to like that. Only lazy or stupid people don't do well in capitalism, whereas with socialism, you still have the haves and have nots, you still have rich people, it's just that you have zero chance of becoming one of them if you aren't lucky enough to be born into the right family.

[@everythingviral972]

@@Andre-hm5vo "Why would people think capitalism is a good thing? Because it is the system that has created the most successful, most prosperous nations. It's the only system that actually works.

[@everythingviral972]

@@Andre-hm5vo There is no black and white answer, as there are varying degrees and types of socialism. There are no successful countries that are entirely socialist. The countries that people keep calling socialist, like my country, are a mixture of capitalist and socialist, and I have no problem with that, in fact I'm in favour of it.I am not so much against socialism as I am against people who want to eradicate capitalism, it just seems such a farfetched and unrealistic proposition. To be honest with you, I actually hate politics, so it's not a back and forth I want to get into. You can call that a win for you if you want.

[@MrSpandex1]

@@everythingviral972 typical answer from a white person .

[@ahmadahmed214]

Capitalism is also imperialism and keep telling people but they don't even know it.

[@pc4mlc451]

Could someone please explain how anyone can support this insane woman?

[@waterprincess244minecraft7]

How is she insane? are you a racist

[@pc4mlc451]

@@waterprincess244minecraft7 Oh for Christs sake... Her race has nothing to do with her radical communist sympathizing garbage she spews to young and impressionable people. She would sooner watch America burn and be rebuilt as she sees it than actually address current issues.

[@shahzeb68]

@@pc4mlc451 you are the insane one. She speaks factually

[@pc4mlc451]

@@shahzeb68 You didn't deny anything I said... what a surprise.

[@bdhfhbhrebfg466]

@@shahzeb68 she doesn’t speak facts they are all opinions

[@NeekBg]

I feel so bad for a women who fought for freedom and media has twisted her movement by saying she was evil......

[@RocketmanRockyMatrix]

Capitalism is not racist. Many Black people survived under capitalism with their Black owed businesses.

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

RocketmanRockyMatrix Capitalism keeps the oppressed down and perpetuates the status quo. Think about it some more and it might make sense to you.

[@RocketmanRockyMatrix]

@@user-wl2xl5hm7k You are thinking about crony-capilitism and oligarchy. The establishment puts the economy in big businesses favor. I see a lot of Asians and some Latinos benefiting from capitalism.

[@shahzeb68]

They’re literally oppressing other blacks doing so.

[@mamster233]

Great woman!

[@ampersand6375]

Some day the black community will take individual accountability for their own actions and own behaviors.....dont hold your breath.

[@eliakimbenishchayil]

Angela Davis should not use the term Latinex

[@dollylove3430]

I choose Thomas Sowell💕

[@obrightgirlo]

Listen to her!

[@AdilMouhammed-zf1br]

Destruction of capitalism is the only way to get rid of the bad apple and the bad tree. Replacement of capitalism is the basic way for ending Racism and all Trump like people. Capital came by blood and goes by blood.

[@AdilMouhammed-zf1br]

@Larry Davisson I was not making a statement about you and me. But about those who have been left behind and they are many millions these days. This condition is destroying the system, your income, and mine too.

[@AdilMouhammed-zf1br]

@Larry Davisson Self-interest creates significant problems on all levels. It is destructive and corruptive for all but the few who capitalize on it such as the inside trading senator and those losers who got bailout..

[@benjamindaass3822]

amy: "can you talk about racism and capitalism?" amy, she's got books.

[@tonymena]

All small business people are capitalists. True capitalists. Free enterprise IS capitalism. The capitalists or capitalism that Angela and others speak about is the oligarchy. Who are are entwined with the establishment, empowered by and with the government. We Capitalists (small business people) have no such connection.

[@tonymena]

@Feminism Is Toxic Femininity , Thanks for giving me the actual name of what many are erroneously calling Capitalism.

[@jfspiresbeta]

the true capitalists are the owners of means of production, not small business owners. We talk about tycoons of capitalism, they don´t pay much tax ( because the medium and small business owners pay tax for them, and in some places the middle class and lower classes too), they owns the media conglomerates, the tech companies, etc.

[@anyad6131]

My school taught ne capatalism was good and should never be abandoned.

[@jamesone3160]

Did they also tell you about the 10s of millions of people who have died under socialistic/communistic regimes. Do you remember the part where capitalism caused 8 million people to starve to death in Russia ...oh..wait..that was SOCIALISM. Capitalism has its terrible atrocities behind it but trust its no where near the damage/death caused by socialistic ideology.

[@Kunstdesfechtens]

James One It’s about equivalent. Authoritarian Communism sits at about 100 million, and global capitalism at about 80 million. Hardly a ringing endorsement.

[@jfspiresbeta]

@@jamesone3160 You know, until mid 50's it´s common for people to die because of famine, in XX centure occurs int US too. Now if talking about Holodor I recommend you read mora about this before atribution of actions without know the situation.

[@thesoundsmith]

Do you believe your school? IS there PROOF of the assertion, or were you trained to not require such things?

[@mattmccullough1093]

Nezi Germany was a Socialist country. Adolf Hitler's biggest threat was capitalism. The conference biggest threat was patriotism. The Confederate woned to break off and become their own country a Socialist country so they could continue slavery. So if you think capitalism is racist you obviously don't know what racism is. If America ever comes a Socialist country you will see racism as if you never seen it before in the most evil way possible.

[@marcussansonejr5005]

Anyone that thinks capitalism is racist needs to move to Venezuela. Bye bye!!!

[@wojosquad4680]

Actually since theere is a incentive to get the most profit in captialism, if a business is found to have racist attuide towards a demographic they loss overall buyers of product

[@fresnobob2494]

I love her idea, but the human race is 100% split in idiologies. To make it worse... half of all humans think Might makes right the only end result. Fk, it makes me mad, but it's so frk'n right; it hurts. Passivity is soil in the eyes Regression.

[@mattmccullough1093]

Well said. I wish all humans referred to the human race as the human race. Instead of separating us by skin color. Are skin color is not a race.

[@craighorowitz9151]

She's labeled as a scholar?? Quoting Marxism?? Bahahahaha. Hilarious!! 🤣 😂

[@rooster1274]

Criminal!!

[@lightorluzlightorluz8148]

ANGELA GIVE ALL YOUR MONEY, PROPERTIES, ANYTHING YOU OWN TO POOR PEOPLE, DO IT NOW. YOU WILL SURELY BE MORE ADMIRED! DON'T FORGET TO DISTRIBUTE FOOD IN THE STREETS.

[@josephwritessongs]

That wouldn't achieve any kind of structural change and would be meaningless virtue signalling.

[@thrisbt1]

how do we eradicate racial capitalism ?

[@thesoundsmith]

Eradicate Crony Capitalism, force corporations to be RESPONSIBLE for their decisions. Racial decisions are bad economics.

[@thrisbt1]

@@thesoundsmith how will crony capitalism be eradicated ?

[@bbodinefan11]

So an economy that rewards the worker for giving extra effort is racist. My my my. How far we have fallen. Effort is the key to a capitalist economy. Maybe if certain people gave more.

[@sgtrod]

Trump 2024! 🙌🏼

[@loriesoliwoda-truong]

I hope both of you ladies understand that the only reason you were even able to sit there and speak to one another is because of capitalism...

[@MarcPagan]

They're proof that ignorance might be bliss...but...it's still ignorance.

[@ebbyoma7008]

All this talk on eradicating capitalism... Don’t y’all think it is possible for a capitalism without Black and Latinx exploitation to exist? Why is it that we make capitalism synonymous with Black and Latinx exploitation (i know it’s been that way historically, but I don’t think that bc it’s been that way historically, it means that in the identity of “capitalism” is synonymous with “Black and Latinx exploitation”). Even though the two HAVEN’T been mutually exclusive historically, the two CAN be mutually exclusive, no? Because nothing intrinsic about capitalism requires demographical exploitation, right? In other words: Can’t capitalism exist devoid of racial/ ethnic exploitation? I think it can. And the one that exists WITH it is the one we need to get rid of.

[@SomeSomeCruzz00]

No

[@ebbyoma7008]

Wayne Orego do you care to expand, even if briefly, why you think not?

[@SomeSomeCruzz00]

@@ebbyoma7008 capitalism is a heirarchical system it depends on people on the bottom to work. So it will always create some arbitrary characteristics to justify heirarchies. The one they're using now is race. And racism is used to justify keeping black people in a lower financial situation so they feel desperate enough to resort to petty crimes to survive so they can be arrested and used for the prison industrial complex

[@MarcPagan]

Note 3:>>Almost all the disproportionate Black and Hispanic (my background) poverty vs others, evaporates ..... when adjusted for unwed mother households. Lesson>>>>Only have a child if married.

[@RocketmanRockyMatrix]

Why are Asians doing well under capitalism?

[@maxrequisite]

@@RocketmanRockyMatrix because their culture teaches to actually do something as opposed to the victim complex culture black people are thought by politicians and white colleges(who tend to view socialism and communism in a positive light I might note)

[@gmork1090]

@@RocketmanRockyMatrix Because Asians actually give a damn about the whole over the individual. Family over self. The government that protects over self.

[@kleverkinds111]

YES!

[@philr7813]

What on earth is she talking about? The industrial revolution started in the UK and had nothing to do with slavery. She's making it all up!!

[@rrogers5077]

🔥🔥🔥

[@LaughingblueSu]

If we cared for by our planet properly, everything would fall into place.

[@AlexPletcherPhoto]

cared for humanity

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

Making our economic system better first is required before we can take care of the planet.

[@Andre-hm5vo]

Have you seen are species lately, I was once hopeful but not now, we are fucking finished and good riddance too.

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

Andre P If you’re nihilist like this, then why even contribute to public discourse online?

[@Andre-hm5vo]

@@user-wl2xl5hm7k Because this human generation is misguided in their assessment for change. There are three forms of activism: 1- Awareness: Protests, Speeches, Education, etc. 2- Coercive: Boycotts, Civil disobedience, etc. 3- Proactive: Building solutions, technically. The activist industrial complex ( protesters/academic intellectuals calling for change ) lives in bracket 1 almost exclusively, which is why nothing changes. It's not about being nihilistic.

[@spiritofecstasy8525]

Angela, that is so far off that it is pathetic! Black people want to move up and get their "piece of the pie" Not just give up and let the dream die! 😊 I read the first book that Angela Davis wrote! She was communist then and hasn't really changed that much from her earliest views! ⭐

[@thesoundsmith]

What YOU are saying is that Black people bought into the American Dream. Largely true. But that does NOT mean the American Dream was ever a REAL thing. I was trained that Capitalism is the best economic system, but then saw the rampant abuse. And the built-in racism. We can - and MUST - do better. But we won't.

[@SilviaDelariva1419]

Thank you for calling our group LatinX. I dispute belonging to the crayon box of colors such as BROWN PEOPLE. As if we don't have an origin. If the crayon limited individuals want to remain married to racism, there's nothing we can do. My preference: Mexican/American. Thanks again for the pride.

[@fuckamericanidiot]

Approximately zero Latinos and Latinas use Latinx. Long may that continue.

[@alfredoalcantar8691]

Latinx no one used it

[@thesoundsmith]

Just to confuse the issue, take away the sombrero and replace with a sari. Now you are Indian. Or Fijian, etc. And a few other brown-skinned offshoots of "Adam." WHY THE FUCK do we care about color? We (until 'properly' trained) DON'T. It is used to divide and conquer, to PREVENT human progress.

[@thesoundsmith]

Taking pride - or embarrassment - from your skin color birthplace is just dumb. YOU are not responsible for ANY of that. Be happy to be whatever, but PRIDE is not appropriate, and is responsible for a lot of unwanted pain.

[@cmf1402]

@@thesoundsmith some people want to be apart of something they consider "greater" without contributing anything. Some people just feel empty without that gratification and don't have the mental faculties at the time to imagine a version of themselves without such a desire.

[@blacklistdreviews]

What about blacked owned business?

[@yorkshiremgtow1773]

@Wuffaj00 What is a 'racist system'?

[@yorkshiremgtow1773]

@Wuffaj00 Let's suppose that there are two competing businesses. One has racist principles, the other doesn't. Which is more likely to succeed?

[@yorkshiremgtow1773]

@Wuffaj00 Right. So how is Capitalism racist?

[@yorkshiremgtow1773]

@Wuffaj00 Yes I do. But so what? How does that one example determine that a whole system is racist? Homosexuals were discriminated against during the USSR. Does that mean Communism is homophobic?

[@yorkshiremgtow1773]

@Wuffaj00 Have a look at the works of the African-American economist Thomas Sowell. In the 1980s, his research found that the average black worker in the USA earned higher (in Purchasing Power Parity) than the average worker in the Soviet Union, or any Socialist country at that time. This was far more significant in its implications than any of the baseless, unresearched claims that Angela Davis has made over the decades.

[@ambermcentire5695]

I wonder if she agrees with Bernie sanders

You will never get rid of racism, it is a benevolent part of humanity that keeps us separated and peaceful the way god intended.

[@robinholbrook6576]

alternate868 WTF

[@rafaeleuzebio3090]

capitalism in a nutshell: person 1: do x and i'll give you money person 3: okay RAYCISM XD

[@superiorshotgun4348]

Communists:THIS IS LITERALLY MODERN DAY SLAVERY

[@trenabristol8855]

The top commandment in capitalism is maximizing profits. Creating fake differences is key to doing this. Call one race and labeling people of color as inferior and unworthy of support has enabled capitalists bring in maximal profits over the centuries.

[@FollowMagicBrad]

What??? Racism is connected to Capitalism? Then perhaps employment is also connected to capitalism, which connects employment to racism too.

[@pocnit]

Pretty dumb isn't it? Everything is connected one way or another.

[@FollowMagicBrad]

Pocnit 👍Agreed. Everything is connected. We need to be clear on what is good and what is evil. Capitalism is what allows for paychecks to clear and not bounce. This is a good thing. Corrupt Capitalism is an entirely different conversation.

[@guregorihattofirudo2627]

Wow! This woman inspires me. I remember all the hate directed toward her but she just continued speaking the truth . That truth has not changed

[@duality5503]

It's black Nazism pure and simple.

[@fresnobob2494]

2:20 Oh look, a room full of Sociopaths.

[@BaibonnDilangalenSangid-fv9qk]

Eradicate the roots of racism by striking first those who caused kidnapping of Africans, sell them in slave market to be enslaved in White House hold and farm without just pay, modest compensation and decent accommodation.

[@kennethwilson4316]

“we can't eradicate racism without eradicating capitalism ” So you are saying that: 1. Wealthy people or capitalists are racist. 2. If you don't have money then you aren't a racist? What a load of BS … could use a load of that … wouldn't have to buy fertilizer for my garden for at least 10 years.

[@spiritofecstasy8525]

Kenneth Wilson : Yeah, that is how silly it gets at times with these people! She must not ever leave California! lol! 😀

[@spiritofecstasy8525]

@Feminism Is Toxic Femininity Right! Some racism will exist in any type of society or political system! It is always based on prejudice! Pure and simple, that just means pre-judging people before you have given yourself a chance to get to know them or before you have anything upon which to make a valid and intelligent judgement! That has nothing to do with capitalism or not having capitalism! 😊

[@spiritofecstasy8525]

@Feminism Is Toxic Femininity Yeah, racism existed between the Persians and the Greeks, and between the Egyptians and the Jews, etc. It is just instinct, put there by nature as a form of self protection and preservation! We learn to see beyond it gradually! 😊

[@spiritofecstasy8525]

@Feminism Is Toxic Femininity Very true! People can learn to appreciate each other's good qualities through the right type of "one on one" communication! You change people's minds and attitudes one person at a time and that eventually changes the whole country's attitudes! 😊

[@spiritofecstasy8525]

@Feminism Is Toxic Femininity Good character, good humor, and showing a truly genuine interest in the other person causes them to want to listen to you! Intelligent people are able to bridge racial divides in this way until the other person is able to overcome his or her innate, inherited prejudices and actually begins to desire to overcome them! That is how we change people and their attitudes, one person at a time! A sour, demure, expressionless person who has "I'm an unlucky victim" written all over their face is not going to change anybody and may even reinforce their preconceived notions! 😊 (And, of course, it does not go over well in most cases to have a condescending, "I'm better than you expression on your face, either - even if you think are! This may be difficult to do, if you are a minority with a high level of education or professional achievement! You'll have time to demonstrate all these things as time goes on! Then things will be clear and non-abrasive!) 😊

[@kaylala4695]

she's so real

[@4.6kj]

Yes have fun at the top you guys it’s a whole different world outside the city and the outskirt cities… a whole new league.

[@thosethatcan]

Davis is the Sade of modern family *lgbtq and all.. civil rights .. NOT the right to harm..."

[@robinholbrook6576]

Bitsof Bytes Modern? Heck! I marched with her back in the 60’s!

[@AllenSentinery]

I agree that Marx wasn't a bad racist, but he still was, you can't be antiracist and believe in Marx at the same time. His views on Jewish people and Capitalism were clearly racist.

[@benzippos]

My beliefs are way different than hers but I still like to see how others think so I don’t trap myself in an echo chamber, but I don’t see how capitalism is connected to racism what she said ,to me seems like a half baked right wing extremist theory. Racism is a huge problem that ultimately can’t be fixed whether it’s due to changing economic systems cause even when the Soviet’s had destroyed hitlers reign Stalin also had sent off Jews to gulags and even had them sentenced to death. In terms you cant fix stupid which the stupid is racism, but you can try to enlighten people and teach them to not judge ,just like how they were taught to hate in the first place. I think the idea of socialism or communism couldn’t work due to the greedy nature of humans but in time we could outgrow these tendencies and could actually make it work but it doesn’t seem like it unfortunately. I’m still rather young but I’ve begun to see racism in different light when I was younger I was brought up in a semi racist household where I wasn’t explicitly taught to hate but when alone with certain older family members they would tell me what they thought about a certain race and for a time i thought it was ok but up until about 16 or 17 I realized racism isn’t just a bad thing anymore it was actually a huge problem and realizing how scary in a sense it was to see how someone could hate someone just for the color of their skin. To me it just seemed like a ludacris thing and irrational way of thinking and then I decided to look at slavery as a whole not just the United States but multiple countries. I was history buff to an extent and I would search online for hours or read a book about the Muslim slave trade which Muslims took slavs and enslaved them and sold them which is how slavs got that name. Slavery has existed since the dawn of human civilization and still does to this day with the Libyan slave trade. Americans have a huge problem of thinking they are the only country on earth or just what I call plain ignorance and living in a bubble not wondering what is happening in other countries I’m not saying that’s how all Americans think but I think everyone gets the point. When black South Africans were murdering white farmers and claiming their reasons are justified considering they originally owned the land but they still were perpetuating hate and racism on both sides and no one in America batted an eye except for maybe a dozen or so people. When Tamir rice a young black child who was murdered by a police officer who suspected the child of furnishing a weapon. many people rioted and protested and Obama even said something about it still didn’t get the worldwide attention it needed. Chinese communist party has been imprisoning Uighurs and putting them in “re education camps” which basically means if you don’t listen to what we say your family goes away no one says nothing. 2020 comes along and George Floyd, breonna Taylor dies from police officers and it gets worldwide attention BLM is pushed to forefront of media and racism is once again pushed heavily into the faces of everyone which isn’t bad cause racism is shitty but people should be aware of it, like people should with history. The whole point ig I’m trying to make is racism isn’t just perpetrated by whites but all of you don’t need me to tell you that but the number of people becoming anti white is becoming alarmingly higher in these past couple of years many of the people who are anti white are white themselves, they push a white guilt narrative that we should be held responsible for another humans actions when those who have done nothing wrong are being accused of racism. I don’t hate anyone who thinks differently politics wise but if you hate a person for how they look or speak I will have nothing to do with you. I just had to get this off my chest personally

[@3941602]

Ask a Nigerian about Capitalism. She is wrong here.

[@r.l.1469]

I know that's right!

[@asyfydiet9169]

I hate to have to say it but Ms Davis if you have sold books in a capitalist society your a racist yourself people in glass houses should not throw stones.

[@SimSetSoPalestine]

Hero

[@fordcobraboss427]

Racial Capitalism, well said, and about time this is brought to the surface.

[@thosethatcan]

0:56 aka amazon walmart *tom cruise scientology dhl. ? Clearwater FL?.. dirty filthy

[@Stevierschannel]

Свободу Анджеле Дейвису!

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

Angela should be broadcasted as much, if not more, than Cornel West. In addition to racism, she points out the inherent sexism in capitalism. It appears she’s recently also focusing on capitalism’s heterosexism, with her use of the term “heteropatriarchy” at the end. I love how she combines all these critiques with critiques of capitalism, because the oppression occurs simultaneously.

[@MarcPagan]

The wage gap has been endless debunked ...surgeons earn more than pediatricians ..pilots more than stewards....etc, ..choices have benefits, and consequences.

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

Marc Pagan Birth into either a rich or poor family has consequences. No choice in that, right?

[@MarcPagan]

@@user-wl2xl5hm7k good hearted point, but debunked...... Being born to an unwed mother is the main factor, not SES born into....Not race, ethnicity, school district, or money per student ... example ...NYC spends $20k per student annually in its 1.1 million student district, regardless of race, SES of the neighborhood, etc One must admit, 1.1million is a large enough sample size So, why do only 16% of Black students perform at proficient in Math or English? (NYC Chancellor's report 2013) Why do less than 1% of Black 8th grade students perform at advanced in mathematics vs 18% of Whites, and 23% of Asians? Lack of smarts? No way....Blacks led World class Black colleges, even when there was real racism, prior to 1940. Do union teachers in the Leftist Media capital of Earth under teach group X? Of course not So, what's going on? I suspect a mix of no father at home to say "homework time ", and children not being taught values at home, and emotional pain .....due to being raised without a father's guidance and love, including tough love. Solution.....end generational Welfare, funding Unwed parenthood

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

Marc Pagan All you that said doesn’t make sense to me and seems irrelevant to what I was talking about. But no worries. I wish you the best.

[@RocketmanRockyMatrix]

What subject does Angela teach? Is she an Economic or Business Professor?

[@pc4mlc451]

She's a communist race hustler.

[@lacijohnson400]

Lol

[@rrice1705]

Lunacy

[@michaelcoronado3550]

Amen!

[@1984-i1w]

*awomen

[@joziewales1965]

Oh brother. Here we go again. Go to Cuba or Venezuela

[@joziewales1965]

Brandon Harris socialism is the problem asshole.

[@AlexPletcherPhoto]

SOCIALISM IS THE FUCKIN AGENDA, and it does NOT have humanity's best interests in mind...

[@joziewales1965]

Brandon Harris then we’ll meet on the battlefield

[@joziewales1965]

Brandon Harris ok you Nazi POS

[@user-wl2xl5hm7k]

Brandon Harris Let’s not forget that we can’t have a Stalinist communism. It’s too authoritarian and oppressive. The new socialism is about freedom.

[@2BeBold_en]

Peter Joseph - The Zeitgeist Movement; The New Human Rights Movement. Jacque Fresco - The Venus Project.