<p>Radical black activist Angela Davis was visibly shocked when she learned that she was a descendant of the pilgrims on the Mayflower.</p>
<p>The self-avowed Marxist feminist and former black power activist in the 1970s appeared as a guest on the PBS series &#8220;<a href="https://www.pbs.org/video/and-still-i-rise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finding Your Roots</a>&#8221; Tuesday. During her interview, host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. revealed that she is a descendant of one of the original passengers on the Mayflower, William Brewster.</p>
<p>Gates shared a clip of the segment on Twitter. &#8220;Any idea what you&#8217;re looking at?&#8221; he asks. &#8220;That is a list of the passengers on the Mayflower.”</p>
<p>Davis is in complete astonishment. &#8220;No, I can&#8217;t believe this,&#8221; she says, laughing and throwing her hands up. &#8220;No, my ancestors did not come here on the Mayflower,&#8221; she laughs again.</p>
<p>&#8220;Your ancestors came here on the Mayflower,&#8221; Gates repeats. &#8220;You are descended from one of the 101 people who sailed on the Mayflower.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;No. No, no, no, no,&#8221; she responds, still laughing in disbelief. Finally, she collects herself. &#8220;Oof. That&#8217;s a little bit too much to deal with right now,&#8221; she says.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">“Do you know what you’re looking at? That is a list of the passengers on the Mayflower.” </p>
<p>Our researchers discovered <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AngelaDavis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AngelaDavis</a>’s ancestors traveled to the US on the Mayflower and here is her reaction. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FindingYourRoots?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FindingYourRoots</a> <a href="https://t.co/G2HhA9BSrT">pic.twitter.com/G2HhA9BSrT</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Henry Louis Gates Jr (@HenryLouisGates) <a href="https://twitter.com/HenryLouisGates/status/1628210213236142080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>According to the episode, Davis&#8217;s father, Frank Davis, was legally the son of Mollie Spencer and Edward Davis. But Edward Davis was not his biological father; Spencer and Davis separated before he was born. Instead, Frank Davis was the son of Mollie Spencer and another white man named Murphy Jones. Experts were able to map Davis&#8217;s family line through Jones all the way back to William Brewster, an original signer of the Mayflower Compact and a leader of the Plymouth Colony.</p>
<p>Also in the episode, Davis&#8217;s maternal grandfather was a white Alabama lawyer and state legislator named John Austin Darden. Through Darden, she is the descendant of a man named Stephen Darden, a drummer born in Virginia who served in the Revolutionary War. Darden then moved to Georgia, where he owned a farm and at least 6 slaves.</p>
<p>“I always imagined my ancestors as the people who were enslaved,” Davis said. &#8220;My mind and my heart are swirling with all of these contradictory emotions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Davis has been a radical race activist for more than the last half-century. She began her instruction in Marxism from the time she began studying at Brandeis University. She became a student of the radical left-wing philosopher Herbert Marcuse, and also studied the work of the Marxist Jean-Paul Sartre. A member of both the Communist Party USA and the Black Panther Party, she spoke in Communist Cuba, the Soviet Union, and East Germany. She has also had a long career in academia, beginning as a professor at UCLA in 1969 and has taught at San Francisco State, UC Santa Cruz, Rutgers University, and Syracuse University. She also ran for Vice President as a member of the Communist Party in 1980 and 1984.</p>
<p>Davis, 79, has continued her career promoting radical politics. In 2011, she spoke at Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in Philadelphia. She was an honorary co-chair of the first Women&#8217;s March in 2017. She has called for the abolition of prisons, and in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-radical-professor-calls-abolition-police-jeffrey-cawood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2017</a> op-ed, she called for the abolition of the police &#8220;in the age of Trump.&#8221; She is also a family friend of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jussie-smollett-was-raised-in-the-orbit-of-the-black-panthers-as-his-mom-was-best-friends-with-radical-communists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jussie Smollett</a>. Her works on race and gender have also been featured in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/princeton-now-offers-a-class-about-black-lives-matter-that-includes-readings-from-an-avowed-marxist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">college courses</a>, and lately, in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/revised-version-of-ap-african-american-studies-course-tones-down-wokeness-desantis-admin-reviewing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AP African-American Studies</a> class that was banned by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis this year.</p>

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