Angela Davis: Biden is the ‘Candidate Who Can Be Most Effectively Pressured’

In an appearance Monday on Russia Today’s Going Underground, radical Marxist and former Black Panther Angela Davis explained that she is supporting empty-suit Joe Biden for president because he is the “candidate who can be most effectively pressured.”

“I don’t see this election as being about choosing a candidate who will be — who will be able to lead us in the right direction,” Davis states in a video shared on social media. “It will be about choosing a candidate who can be most effectively pressured into allowing more space for the evolving anti-racist movement.

“Biden is very problematic in many ways, not only in terms of his past and the role that he played, and pushing toward mass incarceration…” Davis continued, “but – I say but – Biden is far more likely to take mass demands seriously – far more likely than the current occupant of the White House.”

Davis is correct — far from being a “moderate,” the cognitively-challenged Biden will be simply a puppet for a strong, more radical vice-president and advisers.

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Davis delivered the keynote address at an April 2009 event where the Chicago branch of the NAARPR presented its highest honor, the Human Rights Award, to Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Davis’s speech emphasized such themes as the evils of capitalism, the intransigent nature of American racism, and the injustices of the “prison-industrial complex.” Some noteworthy excerpts:

• “The election of [Barack] Obama was a millennium transformation, and we’re in a new historical conjunction in 2009.”
• “Many assume Obama is going to save capitalism, but a lot of us here have other ideas about changing the system.”
• “[T]here is [a] reason why we still have the prison industrial complex, and its called racism.”
• “The question of race is so essential to the history of this country. And working against the prison-industrial complex and the death penalty will help us to understand the markings and history of U.S. slavery.”
• “Not another prison should be constructed in this country. Because the solution is not putting perpetrators behind bars. Sending people to jail does not help heal society’s problems.”

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