Through her activism and scholarship over many decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice.
The PBS website thus introduces Davis for the February 21 episode of “Finding Your Roots,” with Henry Louis Gates, headlined “And Still I Rise.” As the show revealed, Davis tenth great-grandfather was William Brewster, who was born in England in 1570 and came to America on the Mayflower.
“No, I can’t believe this,” said Davis. “My ancestors did not come here on the Mayflower. That’s a little bit too much to deal with right now.” Viewers did not learn of Davis’ dedication to other prominent white people, such as Karl Marx.
Angela Davis’ “community of struggle,” her “movement for social justice,” was the Communist Party USA, not mentioned in the glowing PBS introduction. Communism is based on the works of Karl Marx, who was born in 1818 and who lived until 1883, 20 years after Abraham Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation. In a July 30, 1862 letter to Engels, Marx puts forth his views on race.
“The Jewish n–ger Lassalle,” is leaving at the end of the week, and Marx is glad that Ferdinand Lassalle, founder of the social democratic movement in Germany, will soon be gone.
It is now quite plain to me — as the shape of his head and the way his hair grows also testify — that he is descended from the negroes who accompanied Moses’ flight from Egypt, unless his mother or paternal grandmother interbred with a nigger. Now, this blend of Jewishness and Germanness, on the one hand, and basic negroid stock, on the other, must inevitably give rise to a peculiar product. The fellow’s importunity is also nigger-like.
Marx partnered with Lenin to launch the Communist movement and Marxism-Leninism was the sole ideology of the Soviet Union, supposedly a workers’ paradise. Some blacks went there during the 1930s and in Black on Red: My 44 Years Inside the Soviet Union, Robert Robinson described the conditions.
Soviet racism toward blacks was
worse than anything I recalled in the United States during the 1920s and without question worse than in the United States after the decade of the 1950s. Robinson was a skilled machinist and inventor but the Soviet Communists addressed letters to “Negro Robert Robinson.”
Communist Party USA member Angela Davis was so dedicated to this totalitarian dictatorship that in 1979 the USSR awarded her the Lenin Peace Prize. The following year, Davis ran for vice president of the United States with the Communist Party USA a wholly owned subsidiary of the Soviet Union. Davis and Hall made another bid in 1984, again losing to Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
A black American woman, who styles herself a feminist, dedicates herself to an all-male, all-white Stalinist dictatorship, and runs for vice president of the United States with the political party founded and funded by that Communist regime. Viewers might think that a government-funded television network would mention those historical facts.
The PBS introduction says nothing of Davis’ Communist Party membership and her two runs for vice president. The social justice advocate is a “founding member of Critical Resistance” which deals with the “prison-industrial” complex. She did spend “eighteen months in jail and on trial after being placed on the FBI’s ‘Ten Most Wanted List,’” but no word of the reason.
As Matt McGregor explains in The Epoch Times, Davis was wanted by the FBI for “her alleged involvement in the armed seizure of a Marin County courthouse in California that left four people dead, including a judge.” Davis “purchased the guns used in the attack,” so her involvement wasn’t exactly “alleged.”
Davis comes billed as “a radical social justice Marxist and former member of the Black Panthers,” but nothing about her Lenin Peace Prize. Davis emerged “in California during the late 1960s as a prominent civil rights figure and a member of the Communist Party,” but nothing about her two runs for vice-president with the Communist Party USA under the white Stalinist Gus Hall.
As readers learn, “Davis has been a proponent of Critical Race Theory (CRT), a variation of a concept put forth by German philosopher Karl Marx called “Critical Theory,” which divides people between oppressors and the oppressed.” This focuses on the concept of “white supremacy” labelling “white people as the oppressors and all other races as the oppressed while blaming white people of today for slavery that took place in the past.” That’s Angela all over.
For Angela Davis, the nation founded by people who look like her ancestor William Bradford remains an evil, oppressive place. For Davis, America is basically worthless, except for her professorship at UC Santa Cruz in the “History of Consciousness,” except for her ten books and success on the lecture circuit, and except for her celebrity status and television appearances such as “Finding Your Roots” on PBS.
In those taxpayer-funded precincts, the Lenin Peace Prize winner and 1980-84 Communist Party candidate is “still on the rise,” and now outed as a Mayflower descendant. On the other hand, Davis is not the first to get a surprise on “Finding Your Roots.”
Professor Gates showed singer Carly Simon she was some 10 percent black through a pardo Cuban ancestor, the descendant of slaves. African American radio host Joe Madison learned that his great grandfather was a Confederate soldier who fought with Robert E. Lee, and married a black woman. When it comes to Americans’ actual DNA, the revelations can indeed be stunning.
The bitch should be grateful she isn’t rotting prison for the rest of her days. Instead, she’s one among several leftist scum awarded a cozy teaching (read “indoctrinating”) position in a bullshit overpriced university.
Even the scheming idiot Kathy Boudin got a teaching position.
Civil society sees criminal trash; Leftists see another fellow traveler, not even smart enough to clean toilets, to be given a job brain-washing our next generation.
If useless jobs in gov’t burocracy & colleges didn’t exist, a lot of leftists would starve.
I wish someone else would do a Finding Your Roots program. It is interesting, it is just too bad everything has to be Black and Slaves. The other week a football player essentially told Gates to pound sand, he wasn’t going to take the bait.
I really don’t know how Angela can even begin to think she is Black, she clearly has lots of “white” in her. She is a horrible person. Personally I was unhappy to learn about her Mayflower ancestor, she certainly isn’t deserving of it.
I’m delighted to see that Davis has been confronted with her inhumanity to man.
John Wayne had ancestors on the Mayflower too. I myself had an ancient planter ancestor who was here before the Mayflower and served in the original House Of Burgess. I remember learning about our early nation in school, and never dreamed my ancestors had been here back then. I think about things like that often as I interact with people how you just never know their story. I only know mine by virtue of being an amateur genealogist.
How revolting for Angela Davis to discover she is descended from William Brewster, the first pilgrim protester of religious oppression… Her reality check response a stunned denial. The puritanical racial contempt she has promulgated for over fifty years among countless UC students reflects the intolerance and ingratitude of an aging radical ideologue. The Civil War was a terribly bloody and costly struggle to end slavery. That history can’t be erased, nor should a cadre of cancel culture comrades delete or revise it. Surviving generations and subsequent immigrants have endured because the spirt of America was founded on sacrifice and resilience… Social justice, a Marxist/Communist convention is a cause for disorder, discontent, and disintegration. Justice under our Constitutional law is the balance of freedom and equality.
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The Civil War was a terribly bloody and costly struggle to end slavery.
that terrible conflict was indeed terrible but had nothing to do with the issue of slavery. It was a war of economics and domination by the powerful north, led by a former corporate railroad lawyer who got himself elected president. Examine the tariffs imposed on all offshore trade with the southern states. Their response, to trade directly with European nations, was met with illegal and unconstitutional blockades,the hunting down and destruction/seizure of the ships plying those trade routes. The goal was to keep the southern states under the thumb of the north. When LIncoln threatened military land action some states rightfully seceded. They had voluntarily joined the union, they voluntarily left. So Honest Abe, already illegally occupying Fort Sumpter, an island in Charleston Harbor South Carolina, staged a false flag attack on the Fort and used that as his excuse to declare war.
In the post war “reconstruction” era, the former Confederate states fell into a condition far worse for everyone. With millions of slaves freed by decree, forced to leave the only homes they had known, no means of even subsistence, they became an “army” of sorts, nh=nowhere to go no food to eat no money to buy it with even if there was any to be had. Of course they became hated and feared… a “benefit” to furthering their discrimination.
Had Lincoln not declared war, slavery certanly would have been done away with in a short time, because the indstrial revolution was gaining speed rapidly and the economics of maintaining slaves for farming woud soon enough go upside down because machinery coud do far more for far less expense. The blacks would have quickly learned trades and skills not directly related to farm production and been productive and self-sustaining. Even a new federal law ending slavery in an ordered and decent manner would have served far better than the overnight ending of the practice. It was the sudden arrising of the chaos and “nuisance/danger” factors that led to the Jim Crow era and rabid discrimination.
Lincoln called up the army to put down the rebellion because several states had already seceded at the time of his first inaugural speech. In Maryland pro-slavery, pro-Confederate mobs rioted. Led by Maryland officials, they pulled Union army volunteers off of trains headed to the Capitol and savagely beat them. Lincoln had to order the army to arrest the rioters. Chief Justice Roger Taney issued orders to release the MD officials. Fortunately, army commanders refused to comply.
When Lincoln won reelection in 1864, he received a congratulatory letter from Karl Marx.
Lincoln’s wife Mary Todd’s father was a slave owner. Her father was wealthy Kentucky landowner. Lincoln was wealthy lawyer, or her father would never have allowed the wedding to take place.
Lincoln shut down over 300 hundred northern newspapers because they did not say what he wanted. He jailed a large number of state and federal congressmen because they spoke out against him.
Grant was a slave owner.
The New England states supported the southern states right to secede.
Jefferson Davis adopted a black boy.
Nice cherry picking. Grant manumitted the one and only slave he had which he got from his father-in-law, even though he could have sold him for money. The Grants were Methodists who were strong abolitionists.
The New England states did not support the South’s “right” to secede. William Lloyd Garrison did. He called the Constitution a “pact with the devil.” One of Lincoln’s greatest tests was to convince many New Englanders to support political abolition because he knew slavery would have spread that much more had Congress simply let the Confederates go.
In wartime, the President has extra-constitutional powers, especially under the condition of a civil war. Pres. Lincoln invoked this power temporarily and only in certain areas. He knew that a permanent state of martial law would not hold forever.
“… that terrible conflict was indeed terrible but had nothing to do with the issue of slavery.” Look this up: “Bleeding Kansas.”
The Civil War didn’t begin in April 1861 at Ft. Sumter, SC. It began in the Kansas territory in the late 1850’s when armed, pro-slavery Missourians crossed into Kansas bringing their slaves and staking out land claims.
They were encouraged in these violent raids by the Dred Scott decision and by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. In short, the armed hostilities began because of the failure of the central government to contain the institution of slavery to the states / places where it had existed from the beginning of the nation.
Lincoln predicted and highlighted these events as they happened. Read for example, his Cooper-Union speech. The Republican Party of 1860 consisted almost exclusively of middle-class evangelical Christians who were convinced that the retrograde institution of slavery was a moral evil which must be extirpated at any and all costs.
From the book CULT CITY about Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple cult (p. 150):
“Jones increased the siege mentality by instituting terrifying events called “white nights,”—[note: Jack Cashill at American Thinker: “`White Night,’…when…evil white people would come to kill them.”]—though sometimes they lasted several days.
“The first white night occurred in early September 1977, about a month after the mass migration from San Francisco to Jonestown…Jones fabricated an assassination attempt on himself and pretended that armed forces were encroaching on the community. For six days, residents stood on edge and on guard. Jones hyped the idea that the invisible forces surrounding the community wished to massacre them. He raised the idea of mass suicide as a way to avoid this fate.
“Public figures admired by Jonestown’s rank-and-file…Angela Davis…spoke over the loud speaker via phone…
“‘I know you are in a very difficult situation right now and there is a conspiracy. A very profound conspiracy designed to destroy the contributions which you have made to our struggle,’ Davis told an audience of admirers. `And this is why I must tell you that we feel that we are under attack as well. When you are attacked, it is because of your progressive stand…”
[For Davis’s entire speech visit https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=19027]
My mom had her sized up as a communist more than 50 years ago.
Was it not also revealed that Davis is a descendant of a Stephen Darden, who moved to Georgia and owned six slaves?
That give her and the other bitch Kamala something in common.
(Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary shows that there were several black slave OWNERS before emancipation – most in Louisiana.)
It’s a tradition brought from Africa where tribes battled and enslaved neighboring tribes and sold them to the Arabs who kept some as slaves and sold the rest on the coast to the Europeans and English colonists bound for the New World.
More than “several”; quite a few. It was not unusual. Cherokees also enthusiastically bought and sold slaves and fought for the Confederacy.
Throughout history, whites have been slaves as well, so she cannot claim that blacks were the only humans that were slaves. This is why true and honest history is so important for our children to know. Sadly, our American history has been a lie or changed by socialists/communists. Most Americans have no idea that the communists/socials have been in our country since the very beginning! At the age of 80, I can truthfully say, my generation was taught very little about our history when I was in school. Most of what we learned concerned dates and a brief summary of a historical event. This is why most of us hated our history class. It was dry and boring. and we were required to regurgitate our knowledge about dates and the little known facts we were taught for our tests. Not until I was grown, did I learn to love history—history of our country and the world. The most important and true History of the human race can be found in the Bible. Too bad Davis knows nothing about the Bible. Too bad that one day she will end up in the “wrong place” where Satan wants her! Satan wants all of God’s children to wind up there.
The Muslim Corsairs in the early 1800’s were constantly attacking ships in the Mediteranea. This is why Thomas Jefferson sent the US Navy to stop them. The ships crew and passengers were taken prisoner. The men to work as galley slaves and the women to be sex slaves.
Over 14 centuries Muslims took an estimated 1 million white slaves in Europe. Most were girls or women for harems. The male children were enslaved for life.
The book “White Gold” documents just what you described. (Highly recommended.)
The bitch Angela Davis made her bed. Her fellow leftist/atheists aided & abetted & rewarded her evil deeds with a sinecured teaching position.
You have a point about our history being dry and void of the important facts.
Makes me thank God for Hillsdale . . . and lament that Davis and several other leftist criminal scum are indoctrinating our next generation.
It is said that every king is descended from a slave and every slave is descended from a king, if you go back far enough. Since slavery was the norm all over the world for all of human history, we’re all more likely to be descended from slaves than from kings!
Thanks Lloyd, excellent article.
There is something terribly amiss with a culture that so lavishly rewards those whose fondest wish is to destroy it.
Death death death to the white racist colonizer.
And not a word about the Arab Muslims who enslaved them and sold them around the world.
Angela Davis….professional black person and all around whiner and grifter.
Henry Louis Gates….professional black person and around whiner and grifter.
Both are, somehow, college professors along with other many social justice grifters who have no appreciable skills other than social agitation. And the gullible, “desperate to be down with the struggle” white folk who run the university scam hire them with glee.
And white woke liberals gladly fork over their money and send their little urchins to these leftist factories.
Bingo. Western civilization itself now has a death wish.
Guilt for being alive — Original Sin.
And if she traced her family line far rnough she just might find Slave Owners in it
Possible. Free blacks had higher rates of slave ownership than whites in the United States.
https://slaverebellion.info/index.php?page=the-black-slave-owners
You come up with the most interesting tidbits! Thank you!
NOTE: In their first dreadful winter the pilgrims lost about half their numbers because among other things they practiced Angela’s pet project of socialism. Unlike Angela, the pilgrims learned from the experiment and never tried it again.
Moreover, Angela’s ancestor, William Brewster was not just any Pilgrim. He was the leader, the senior elder, of the congregation. Brewster Massachusetts and Brewster Nebraska are named after him; also four Boston Harbor Islands. He was also the author of and signatory to the Mayflower Compact, one of the first founding documents of America.
Don’t it just make you wonder who owes reparations to whom?
A quick visit to Marxists.org to read the original 7-30-1862 letter of Karl Marx (to Engels) quoted above. In it Marx is expressing some ugly remarks about “Negroes”.
Odd thing “File is No Longer Available”. Hmmm.. wondering why. (Insert thinking emoji here).
Here’s the link just in case you doubt me: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/410.htm
I believe it just as I believe the biographer who outlines how Marx managed to spend most of his adult life living off of other people (patrons). Supposedly he abhorred bathing and was sexually promiscuous outside of his marriage to a terrified wife.
Engels was a major supporter of Marx.
Engels’ mother wanted his father to disown him.
Angela Davis’ parents were both obviously mixed race and middle class. Their physical features are like Ms. Davis’ in terms of lighter skin, smaller noses and lips, and absence of African prognathism.
How could she not know her obvious genetic heritage?
Maybe that was the conscious or subconscious reason she became so prone to engage in hate crimes against whites.
Frank Marshall Davis is the reason BHO hates whites.
The author mistakenly says AD’s ancestor was William Bradford, rather than William Brewster. Please correct the error – I don’t want my family line tainted.
Yes, please! My grandchildren are descended from William Bradford, too.
Why is this piece of shit Angela Davis still alive and breathing?
The following two books provide an accurate history of slavery. Chances are many of our ancestors (Black, White…) were slaves.
“They Were White and They Were Slaves” by Michael A, Hoffman II
“White Cargo” by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh
There are many other books out there.
Thomas Di Lorenzo and Lauchlan Seabrook both have written about the Civil War and how Lincoln maneuvered various people to do his dirty work.
You can add “White Gold” to that bookshelf.
Thomas Sowell also touches on the subject, as all his books are worth reading.
Gosh, I’m sure glad my parents were first cousins (once removed) and their parents came over on a boat from Ukraine (okay, they took a train to Hamburg first). It makes tracing family history a lot easier, if not as interesting.
Its always amusing to me when I see Americans being paid a high salary in a California University speak about how wonderful Communism is while taking advantage of the system she lives under without wondering why people in actual Communist countries are not allowed to promote the wonderful advantage of the system America works under.
Hypocrisy at it highest level..
How come she never took her brains over to Cuba and start teaching there as they would welcome her for sure, but I guess that would be a drastic cut in Salary and the inability to speak her mind, unless of course it was all about Yankee go home.
She hasn’t aged well, that’s for sure…
I guess all the Yoga teaching she did in Berkeley in the 1980s didn’t work too well for her.
And often castrated.