And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation....Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.....Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
Motherfucker actually comes from the old slave system and was a reference to the slave master who raped our mothers, which society today doesn't want to face as a fact.
We are looking upon one of the world's greatest industries...the United States produces more than half of the world's cotton....The picking is generally done by negro laborers, though experiments with harvesting machines are meeting with some success