Status Updates From Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A...

“We must understand that our success is dependent upon collective actions and collective decisions and that means genuinely involving everyone.” (227)

Many of the people involved in the league emphasized community. I feel like leftist today dislike anyone who does not think like them, but how can they expect to change anything if they won’t talk to the people who can help change it with them.

It’s so interesting to see how similar themes from Robin Wall’s book Serviceberries appeared here. “The continuing dynamic of race relations encapsulates the economic, political, and cultural mindset of a society based on a model of economic scarcity.” (208) — reform is based on division (ex: affirmative action). “Rage is the option offered that would life all Americans.” (208)

Cockerel quote summary: Reform that delayed revolution is bad. Reform that reveals the system’s failure and moves people toward revolution is good. (184)

Isaac shorter: Emphasizing class over race. “Because it’s not a racial thing. It’s the system, which is a capitalist system. It oppresses all people.” (190) — could this diminish the racial experience?

“Hundred of black families had their doors literally broken down and their lives threatened by groups of white men in plain clothes who had no search warrants and often did not bother to identify themselves as police.” (171) -seems like law enforcement (like ICE) never change their ways in how they police populations they deem a threat. Law enforcement is military for domestic, rather than international, threat.