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A review by persnickety_9
If They Come in the Morning...: Voices of Resistance by Angela Y. Davis
3.0
This was a really interesting collection of essays/speeches regarding imprisonment. Many authors pointed out how fascist and dehumanizing prison is when you consider the cutoff from the rest of the world, the lack of real medical care, solitary confinement, etc. Prison is not about rehabilitation; it’s punitive and hurts people.
I also was interested by Davis’s point of many activists actually being political prisoners and the Folsom Prison Manifesto. Another great piece was “I Bring an Indictment Against the American System” by the Reverend Ralph Abernathy.
“If they come for you in the morning, they come for us at night” was an incredibly powerful statement. Essentially, if we allow these injustices to happen to people like Angela Davis (who, again, is a complete badass), they will come for the “common” folk next. It is about thinking collectively, not just individually, to sustain a movement for justice. We are not free until we are all free.
Also, in case you forgot, our “justice system” is actually incredibly effed up.
I also was interested by Davis’s point of many activists actually being political prisoners and the Folsom Prison Manifesto. Another great piece was “I Bring an Indictment Against the American System” by the Reverend Ralph Abernathy.
“If they come for you in the morning, they come for us at night” was an incredibly powerful statement. Essentially, if we allow these injustices to happen to people like Angela Davis (who, again, is a complete badass), they will come for the “common” folk next. It is about thinking collectively, not just individually, to sustain a movement for justice. We are not free until we are all free.
Also, in case you forgot, our “justice system” is actually incredibly effed up.