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And I asked Angela
to participate in the educational
that I was conducting on Marxism
to my cadre.
That was the extent of her involvement.
I had gotten involved, very briefly,
Black Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee,
the black student organization
on my campus,
but I did not like the nationalism,
I did not like the male supremacy,
I did not like the fact that women were
expected to take a back seat
and, literally, to sit at the feet of the men.
So it was really refreshing to meet
someone like Franklin Alexander
and Franklin's wife, Kendra.
I think, basically, what we're doing is
we're saying that this system
is rotten at its core,
while we fight for the immediate needs
of the people, constantly and continually.
Better housing, you know,
the end of police brutality.
Stopping the depression level of
unemployment in the black community.
And while we continue
we do know, in fact, that this
system itself creates those conditions.
The changing of those conditions
basically means establishing
a socialist society.
The Che Lumumba Club was
And the purpose of it was
to openly operate
inside the Black Power movement.
I don't know whether I would've joined
the Communist Party at that time,
had not the Che Lumumba Club existed.
You know, Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba,
sort of symbolic of the global revolution
you know, very specifically Third World
people, people of color.
And that was
what really drew me into the party.
We have to talk about being radical.
And radical means, etymologically,
you know, to get things at their root.
It's very interesting. The white people
have been called radicals for a long time.
And black people have been called
militants, you know?
As if black people can't be radicals, too.
But if we don't fight now,
we'll never be able to put into practice
that slogan
which, I think, crystallizes
what we've been talking about,
and that is all the power to the people.
I was invited to apply
for this position at UCLA.
They needed someone
who was trained in continental philosophy
There had been an article
written by a man who had joined
the Communist Party,
but, actually, he was an FBI agent.
And then after that,
a well-known reactionary reporter
in Northern California
wrote a scathing article about me.
And that's when all hell broke loose.
Yesterday was the first day
of the fall term at UCLA,
and philosophy professor, Angela Davis,
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