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Time to assemble all the Angela Davis radlib receipts in one place tbh.
It all starts with her class background, early membership in the CPUSA & rockstar status from the late '60s for me https://twitter.com/no_slave_coasts/status/1283569718088146944
In the late 1970s George Jackson's family sued her & Warner Bros multiple times to get them to stop making a movie about his life & death https://twitter.com/measure7x/status/1285703538484682752
Time skip to the late 90s...the piece these details are from was already linked above but her founding role in the neo-abolitionist movement involved keeping it safely within the realm of academia & nonprofits https://twitter.com/no_slave_coasts/status/1285620896695111680
Given all that it's less surprising that she joined Amiri Baraka (who was always a huge POS lol but that's for another time) & other bougie Black "radicals" in passing off getting Obama elected as a victory for the Black left somehow https://twitter.com/no_slave_coasts/status/1294083333362724864
& since she's always supported rainbow coalitions--like the 1 that freed her in the 70s or the 1 she started by forming Critical Resistance--of course she recycled hollow "critiques" of Afropessimism in defending that kind of work.
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There were screens i don't feel like digging up but many ppl reading this thread should be able to google 'angela davis speaking fees' to confirm for themselves how much better her "retirement" has been than someone like Assata Shakur & other BLA members. https://twitter.com/uptightrodeo/status/1272266194523959299
She voted for hillary in 2016 because the democratic party's stances are closer to her publicly stated politics - like her position on "gun control", which really just means Black people control - than they are to those of revolutionaries. https://twitter.com/bratyoulater/status/1269312224495108098
& she's been on the record supporting joe biden for at least two months now. she told yall to vote for a democrat in the immediate wake of a slave revolt. her latest comments about Kamala Harris are in line with her *years* of radlib apologia. https://twitter.com/no_slave_coasts/status/1272229127911858184
Someone could dig up how much she was earning as a professor in the UC system but at this point i'm re-realizing it wouldn't matter because support for radlibs on the twitter left isn't a matter of where the evidence lies. It's a matter of where the social capital lies. whatever.
Recent screens of Angela Davis's advertised speaking fees that i couldn't find earlier https://twitter.com/no_slave_coasts/status/1272233986874621955
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