Isha’s Reviews > Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution > Status Update

“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)

“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.

Black Revolutionary organizations have been speaking out against Israel and supporting Palestine since forever. It’s interesting to see how the media back then demonized these organizations and called them anti-Semitic even as many Jewish people supported these organizations and shared the same anti-Israel sentiments.