Inside USA - Angela Davis - 03 Oct 08 - Part 2

[croppingbeef]

What an incredibly brilliant individual. She never ceases to impress me.

[zodiacchiller]

jump to 05:49 for Prof. Davis part 2

[titia3353]

she's my shero!!!!!!!!

[MissDemeanour21]

This woman is fantastic. I love Angela Davis - I think I have just found myself a new role model!

[MegaAstrodude]

@MissDemeanour21,

She's a murderer.

[bapyou]

@MegaAstrodude "She's a murderer."

Angela Davis is not a murderer. You however, are a liar.

But then, that's no surprise whatosever. All conservative idiots are pathological liars. You can't help yourselves. You are steeped in lies. You breathe lies. Your entire civilization is a brutal lie and a facade. And it is coming to its end.

[MegaAstrodude]

@bapyou,

Yes, Davis is a murderer. She assisted in murdering anti-Communists in Prague and she supplied the guns for the murder of Harold Haley. As an RAF member, she helped kill 34 people, however bad, without trial.

Our civilization can't end. It just sleeps from time to time.

She's lied about the persecution, suffering, and murder of millions of people in Communist states and Communist-like states making her a holocaust denier and you call me a liar?

[MegaAstrodude]

@bapyou,

Do you really think our civilization is a lie? Why? We tell the truth unlike every other civilization. We admit our faults. As a general rule, we always have going back to the Augustine's concept of total depravity. Our civilization is the only civilization founded on the principle that man is inherently flawed and immoral so we have a sisyphean task to try our best to be moral, but also understand that we will always make painful mistakes.

[bapyou]

@MegaAstrodude "Do you really think our civilization is a lie?"

No, you're a liar.

And until conservatives admit and acknowledge that the US has never once stood for democracy anywhere in the world (in fact, the opposite is true), you are all bald-faced moron-fuck idiot liars.

"we will always make painful mistakes."

Tell that to the victims of America's brutal, thoughtless, inhuman and sadistic foreign policy. Don't tell it to me. I have no respect for you whatsoever.

[MegaAstrodude]

@bapyou,

"And until conservatives admit and acknowledge that the US has never once stood for democracy anywhere in the world "

What do you mean by democracy? We have never stood for majority rule because the majority persecutes the minority. We stand for Republicanism where everyone is granted certain rights regardless of majority rule.

There are no victims of our foreign policy. Innocent civilians killed by our bombs incidentally are the victims of their totalitarian governments.

[bapyou]

"We have about 50% of the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of its population. Our real task is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. We should cease to talk about unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of living standards, and democratization. [W]e are going to have to deal in straight power concepts." -George F. Kennan, U.S. State Dept Policy Planning Study 23, February 1948

[MegaAstrodude]

@bapyou,

That quote is truncated and way out of context. The absence of ellipses makes it libel actually. Kennan was criticizing that position. Read the real quote and not the fabricated one. It's called document PPS23.

Kennan was quite liberal by most measures by the way. By some measures, he was more liberal than Obama.

[EasyEs]

@bapyou Hmm no real understanding of the context I see. I mean never mind Stalin gaining control of huge swaths of the world.

[bilbob7624]

this woman is a fruit loop....people in this country have access to public education. what they do with it is their responsibility. not mine.... decide not to graduate from HS, decide to speak ebonics instead of english, take drugs and your sealing your fate. Be proactive about your own future and stop complaining.

[peengwen12]

@bilbob7624

hahahah ur a racist.

[bapyou]

@bilbob7624

"people in this country have access to public education."

Beginning with Ronald Reagan, there has been a concerted effort to END public education in this country. Every scum-bag conservative politician (including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama) have been trying to privatize every function of government -- including schools.

So fuck you, you lying asshole. You are fucking scum.

Ronald Reagan was the scum of the Earth. I'd piss on his grave, but he is not worthy of my piss.

[MegaAstrodude]

@bapyou,

If we didn't have communist schools, the literacy rate would rise.

[hint0122]

maybe if public education worked, it wouldnt be a problem.

[StpThaHte116]

She didn't say close down institutions...prison doesnt always fix the problem! We are sending these people back out into our society with the same problems they had before they were put in prison... Only now they're pissed off. Reform! Down with the system... Up with the new!

[RobGoth100]

Her hair is more "SideShow Bob" today.

BTW..is it me or is Avi Lewis a smary douchebag?

[Godheval]

@RobGoth100 Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.

[nigel65deck]

Rob Goth you can only imagine what a stylish person that might be with that username. Rob Goth...images of an overage person wearing too much black in a boring suburban nightclub....and unimaginable pop culture comparisons.

[RobGoth100]

Yep, Davis supporting a mass murder like Jim Jones is very stylish. Never heard of that...look it up moron!

[nigel65deck]

oh that is so 1979 move on. I don't care what you have to say about it your just going to stick with Simpsons references to articulate it. I know you are but what am I?

[vondrena]

Why do we always fight in these comment boards? Wouldn't it be better to discuss her arguments?

[adelgado75]

Some people cannot debate an issue. Instead they attack people. It's a fallacy

[Godheval]

@vondrena In order to discuss the arguments, people need to understand the arguments. And that's the problem. Nevermind the complexity of Davis's words, but the filter created by preconceptions of her, based on race, based on her political views (even that they are deemed "radical"), based even on her being a woman. I doubt half the people here can even grasp the connections she's making between the inheritance of slavery and the prison industrial complex. So they resort to the incendiary.

[boils2]

Dr. Davis blew Huey Newton and other pimps for cocaine

[sankofacipher]

you idiot stick yourself in the neck for such a ridiculous and inflammatory statement. you have to be either white and illiterate or black and confused about your identity to make such idiotic response. kill yourself and save the earth.

[boils2]

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[AbeokutaCity1]

so?

[KROGERSGROUP]

She is highly intelligent!! bless her

[CrowdPleeza]

Why are public schools producing illiterates?

[Uriohau]

Ka pai too korero Angela, Maori prison abolitionists are sorely needed in Aotearoa.

[poperussian]

the closure of prisons? yeah lord forbid people pay for the heinous crimes they commit. you figure a person who is a communist would be all for a system in which classes are removed, and every one is seen as an equal member by the governing system, and where people that work hard get payed little to nothing. Angela Davis is a Hypocritical joke.

[sugarfreemars]

This was amazing.. Angela is definatley a woman of great knowledge and passion for the injustices of capitalist amerika. This is a post everyone should see. Thanx for putting this up.

[hint0122]

she is a socalist pig

[dale1966gto]

no, she's a full-blown communist. a revolutionary one at that. she should still be in prison or have been shot for sedetion and high treason years ago.

[hint0122]

ditto

[hint0122]

she is a pig and I hoped she suffers when she dies

[GekkeKattendame]

As a pretty well-informed American, I have never heard of Angela Davis until now. What an amazing woman!

I want to thank Al Jazeera for making this broadcast (and all the others) available to the world. As always, the integrity of your journalism shines through. Words cannot describe how much I have learned about the world (and even my own country) since I discovered this channel. Much appreciation!

[VinnyCons]

GekkeKattendame, you should check out her books. She's written 8. When I was little, my mom showed me a picture of her and explained who she was. She's been on my mind since. She's a breath of fresh air.

[BlueLotusPagana]

She makes great points about prisons. I hope more people listen to this message.

[dicklacock]

Angela ain't nobody's fools

[Dogmeat7]

inside the U.S.A!? an they talk about a damn Communist!??!?!?!?!? really if any one of you dumbfucks like this bitch you need help.

[haysb1488]

why doesnt she go africa and look for what her own people can do for her instead of bitching at the white man who is responsible for all that she has,the sooner this shit comes to a head the better

[jjokerbl]

wow man, that's just ridiculous. If you want to insult her, insult her old ties to Jim Jones and the People's Temple... Not her ethnicity.

[haysb1488]

fuck u

[dahliafully]

In the class struggle, Angela Davis continues to out class them all!

She remains the cool, eloquent, brilliant voice who has seen it all and outlasted, outsmarted and outed everyone else.

"It's about containing surplus populations."

And don't think you're not part of that surplus.

[BlueLotusPagana]

Well said. I think that's why the angry posters lash out so viciously -- they truth hurts. I bet she made them think too hard for at least 2 seconds about their precarious position in the economy, especially if they are poor whites.

[veronicaburgess]

I love Angela Davis!

She is so real!

[LS8492]

Angela RULES!!!!!!!!!! >D

[rvbarnesboy]

rich white people don't seem to go to prison much. hhmmm. look at these thieving assholes in the banking biz. have high crimes been perpetrated?

[dale1966gto]

rich black people don't go to prison much either. remember o.j. they had to get him on kidnapping many years later. it'll be a while before we see o.j. again. ha.

what does o.j. stand for.

orange jump suit.

[wilmaohman]

when the blacks were freed from slavery.the white women were still the property of their husbands.some of the same things the muslim women are going through today.the women had no rights.women couldn't own property.only the men.the only difference women couldn't be sold by the husband.otherwise they had no rights.even the ocassional murder was excused susan b anthony obtained women's rights for them.women are now business owners.ceo's, hold government positions etc.

[Descendone]

are you stupid? Muslim women have been able to own property, businesses for over 1400 years. Their condition isnt perfect but neither is the western womens, so don't speak in a condescending tone.

[ngonea]

America is not qualified to educate descendents of Enslavement (Maafa) They are 24th in the world in Ed,& have had 400 yrs to do so and have not, but provided have mis-education. I;m dissapointed that Dr. Davis

felt the need to refute the demand for a "CASH" you can make that in Gold please,as the Fiat $ is wothless. Many are returning to Africa, those who want to stay in Amerikkkka and assimilate, be my quest.

I'm out of here! "REX 84" N.A.U. RFID chips, FEMA, Homeland In-security etc.

[brazilwanttobe]

Right On!

[wilmaohman]

american has had over 400 years to do so? that alone kills any credibility in your statements or knowledge.

[ngonea]

History of Reparations Payments

1990 U.S.A $1.2 Billion or $20.000 Each JAPANESE AMERICANS

1990 AUSTRIA $25 Million to Holocaust

1988 CANADA 250,000 Sq. Miles of Land INDIANS & ESKIMOS

1986 U.S.A. $32 Million 1836 Treaty OTTAWAS

1985 U.S.A. $31 Million CHIPPEWAS1985 U.S.A. $12.3 Million SEMINOLES

1985 U.S.A. $105 Million SIOUX 1980 U.S.A.

$81 Million KLAMATHS

1971 U.S.A. $1 Billion + 44 Million Acres of Land ALASKA

1952 GERMANY $822 Million to Holocaust Survivors

[brazilwanttobe]

Great Research! At least a few YouTuber are in the know! Thank you!

[studio7manga]

Wow, AlJazeera used a 'The Young Turks' video clip, nice!

[michaelmage]

Avi & Angela together ... Awesome

[abarzilai664]

Good points. Another interesting fact is the Mock Prison Riot in WV which although showcases new tech its main feature is the Mock riot which reduces outrages into a game making gaurds think that it's fun to be brutal.

[jerklian13]

Go watch the John Bolton interview and tell me where this guys political tendencies lay...I really like that interview too b/c it was tough and gritty - but I wondered how he would do with someone from the other end of the spectrum...not saying I disagree with Angela on everything.  Also McCain/Palin skits and jokes were used exclusively - it seems AlJazeera is making a play for my undecided vote - I've been giving them good marks for objectivity too.

[geoffrey1001]

I think he is on the left. He does great interviews, though. Have you seen his program on the "Israel Lobby"?

[Shunteezy]

I love Angela Davis!!!! She is brilliant.

[afrircans1970]

Davis takes herself too seriously, especially when she sells lies. Abolitionists and slavery is NOT the punishment of a child molester!

[ngonea]

OH! you mean all those Catholic Priests who have not served a day in jail for child molestation? I see!

[covertcovenant]

Interesting indeed...

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