Radical black activist Angela Davis was visibly shocked when she learned that she was a descendant of the pilgrims on the Mayflower.
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.
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.”
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.
&#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;
&#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.
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“Do you know what you’re looking at? That is a list of the passengers on the Mayflower.” 
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>
&mdash; Henry Louis Gates Jr (@HenryLouisGates) <a href="https://twitter.com/HenryLouisGates/status/1628210213236142080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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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.
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.
“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;
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.
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.

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‘No, No, No, No’: Radical Black Activist Angela Davis Learns She Is Descended From A Mayflower Passenger

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Fifth graders in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were subjected to a celebration of “black communism,” complete with a mock Black Power rally to honor devout communist Angela Davis.
Christopher Rufo, contributing editor at City Journal, <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/philadelphia-fifth-graders-forced-to-celebrate-black-communism">reported</a> on the classroom activities after receiving <a href="http://christopherrufo.com/bad-education">whistleblower documents</a> and speaking to a school source. Students at William D. Kelley School were forced to participate in a social studies curriculum that celebrated Davis, “praising the ‘black communist’ for her fight against ‘injustice and inequality.’” Students were required to “‘describe Davis’ early life,’ reflect on her vision of social change, and ‘define communist’—presumably in favorable terms,” Rufo reported.
Further:
<blockquote>At the conclusion of the unit, the teacher led the ten- and eleven-year-old students into the school auditorium to “simulate” a Black Power rally to “free Angela Davis” from prison, where she had once been held while awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy, kidnapping, and murder. The students marched on the stage, holding signs that read “Black Power,” “Jail Trump,” “Free Angela,” and “Black Power Matters.” They chanted about Africa and ancestral power, then shouted “Free Angela! Free Angela!” as they stood at the front of the stage.</blockquote>
Davis is a militant activist praised by the Left. She joined the Communist Party and has won the International Lenin Peace Prize, an award from the Soviet Union named after Vladimir Lenin. She has also been accused of anti-Semitism over her support for Occupy Wall Street and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.
As Rufo noted, the William Kelley School is one of the worst-performing schools in Pennsylvania, with just 3% proficient in math by sixth grade and 9% proficient in reading. “By graduation, only 13 percent of Kelley students will have achieved basic literacy,” Rufo reported.
The school, however, appears to have given up on improving academic performance, instead focusing more on “political radicalism.”
“Even the school’s newest public artworks illustrate this politicization. Administrators recently commissioned a mural of Davis and Huey P. Newton, who represent the Communist and Black Panther revolutionary movements of the 1960s; both figures stood trial for various crimes, including the murder of a police officer,” Rufo wrote.
William Kelley is not the only school in Pennsylvania turning toward political activism. As Rufo reported, the superintendent of the Philadelphia public school system announced the district would be working to “[dismantle] systems of racial inequity” and advertised racially segregated training programs for teachers.
As The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oregon-promotes-program-focused-on-dismantling-racism-in-mathematics-says-finding-the-right-answer-a-sign-of-white-supremacy">reported</a>, the “antiracist” movement has been spreading across schools, teaching students that America is inherently racist, as are white people. This new school of thought also teaches that concepts like objectivity and individualism are part of “White Supremacy Culture.” In Oregon, students will now be taught that finding the right answer in math is a symbol of white supremacy. In San Francisco, schools are more focused on renaming buildings and declaring acronyms to be a “symptom of white supremacy culture” than on getting kids back into school, even as suicides in the city are increasing.

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Marxist activist Angela Davis told a Russian-state propaganda media organization that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden would be easier to pressure into caving to the demands of the radical Left than President Donald Trump.
&#8220;I don’t see this election as being about choosing a candidate who will be able to lead us in the right direction,&#8221; Davis told RT in a clip that went viral on social media on Monday but was actually from a few weeks ago. &#8220;It will be about choosing a candidate who can be most effectively pressured into allowing more space for the evolving anti-racist movement.&#8221;
&#8220;Biden is very problematic in many ways, he is not only in terms of his past and the role that he played in pushing toward mass incarceration, but he’s indicated that he is opposed to disbanding the police and this is definitely what we need,&#8221; Davis continued. &#8220;We need to re-conceptualize the very notion of public safety, 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.&#8221;
Davis concluded, &#8220;So, that this coming November, the election will ask us not so much to vote for the best candidate but to vote for or against ourselves. And to vote for ourselves, I think, means that we will have to campaign for and vote for Biden.&#8221;
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It looks like Angela Davis, a known Marxist, is on Russian propaganda news channel RT telling Americans to vote for Joe Biden even if they think he is a bad choice because he can be manipulated.
This seems pretty damn suspicious to me. Who agrees? <a href="https://t.co/OFeEH7FLXi">pic.twitter.com/OFeEH7FLXi</a>
&mdash; Joe E. Collins III For Congress CA-43 (@joecollins43rd) <a href="https://twitter.com/joecollins43rd/status/1282792648961478658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Davis is also a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/us/angela-davis-israel-civil-rights-institute.html">supporter</a> of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to destroy Israel, according to the left-leaning Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
&#8220;The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), which rejects Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, is the most prominent effort to undermine Israel’s existence,&#8221; the ADL <a href="https://www.adl.org/what-we-do/israel/anti-israel-activity-bds">reported</a>. &#8220;The BDS campaign is rampant with misinformation and distortion.&#8221;
“The founding goals of the BDS movement, and many of the strategies employed in BDS campaigns, are fundamentally anti-Semitic,” <a href="https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-supports-bipartisan-resolution-rejecting-bds-movement-and-backing-two-state">said</a> Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO.
Partial transcript of Davis&#8217;s appearance on RT below:
<blockquote>DAVIS: I don’t see this election as being about choosing a candidate who will be able to lead us in the right direction. 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, he is not only in terms of his past and the role that he played in pushing toward mass incarceration, but he’s indicated that he is opposed to disbanding the police and this is definitely what we need. We need to re-conceptualize the very notion of public safety, 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. So, that this coming November, the election will ask us not so much to vote for the best candidate but to vote for or against ourselves and to vote for ourselves I think means that we will have to campaign for and vote for Biden.</blockquote>

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Dr. Angela Davis – a 1960s radical associated with the Black Panthers and Communist Party – headlined a private event in Los Angeles last month where she joined Black Lives Matter leaders in advocating for the abolition of police, prisons, and capitalism.
“You can’t simply focus myopically on one thing and say ‘get rid of slavery,’ or ‘get rid of prisons,’ or ‘get rid of the police,’” Davis, a former professor in the University of California system, explained. “Abolition asks us to think about what it is we need to do to transform the entire context, the entire society.”
Titled “Abolition in the Age of Trump,” the <a href="http://patrissecullors.com/2017/04/19/abolition-age-trump/">gathering</a> was organized by Dignity and Power Now &#8211; an activist group focusing on the rights of incarcerated people. DPN was founded by Patrisse Cullors, who is also a co-founder of Black Lives Matter. It was instrumental in the formation of a new civilian oversight board for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD), which oversees the nation’s <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/22/us/lisa-ling-this-is-life-la-county-jail-by-the-numbers/">largest</a> jail system.
As the Los Angeles Times <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sheriff-oversight-20160112-story.html">reports</a>:
<blockquote>The push to create a civilian panel began amid revelations of widespread abuses in the county jails and has gained new currency as national attention has been focused on police use of force and relationships between law enforcement and minority communities last year.
Mark-Anthony Johnson, an activist with the group Dignity and Power Now, which led the push by community groups for a civilian commission, praised the progress made over the last three years but slammed the decision to allow former law enforcement officials on the panel.</blockquote>
“I am an abolitionist,” Cullors, who emceed the event, told the crowd assembled in the Underground Museum’s Purple Garden. “I’m going to proclaim it and shout it and remind people.”
Davis, a leader of the new abolition movement, praised Cullors and the emergence of Black Lives Matter for creating “a new arena of struggle” that incorporates the same objectives that she has been fighting for since the 1971 Attica Prison <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/hostages-died-gunshots-not-cut-throats-1971-article-1.2351968">riot</a>. It was a four-day uprising where inmates took control of a correctional facility in New York. After the State Police had moved in, 29 prisoners and ten hostages had been <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/likely-attica-prison-riot-shooters-named-45-years-later/">shot</a> dead.
“The brothers who stood up in Attica called not for the reform of the prison system, but abolition,” Davis recalled. “That was the first time that I began to take it really seriously.”
At the time, Davis herself was incarcerated on charges of murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/08/home/davis-shooting.html">connection</a> with the shooting deaths of four people in California &#8211; including a judge. An international “Free Angela Davis” campaign ensued.
As the New York Times <a href="https://mobile.nytimes.com/1971/01/31/archives/carolina-abduction-of-8-called-a-scheme-to-free-angela-davis.html">reported</a> on January 31, 1971:
<blockquote>A State Senator whose wife was shot two weeks ago in an attempted kidnapping plot said this week that two young black men involved had planned to demand ransom and to attempt a trade of their victims for Angela Davis, the black militant accused of murder in California.</blockquote>
More than 45 years later, Davis still has the allegiance of black revolutionaries, who have latched on to her concept of abolition that she revived not long ago. In 1997, Davis <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/summer-noble/angela-davis-speaks-on-ra_b_6601260.html">co-founded</a> Critical Resistance, an organization created to challenge “the idea that imprisonment and policing are a solution for social, political, and economic problems.”
“We were thinking about trying to change vocabularies, and the term that we introduced at that time was the ‘prison industrial complex,’” Davis recalled. “That gives us the opportunity to talk about racism. That allows us to talk about the economy and the role that capitalist corporations play, particularly in the context of global capitalism &#8211; which is really responsible for the proliferation of prisons all over the world. Because you need a place for people that are rendered ‘surplus’ by the kinds of economies that are created by capitalist corporations.”
The phrase Davis helped coin is now part of the Black Lives Matter lexicon. Its website <a href="http://blacklivesmatter.com/11-major-misconceptions-about-the-black-lives-matter-movement/">calls</a> for “the complete dismantling of the prison industrial complex,” and states:
<blockquote>Many of the movement’s organizers identify as abolitionists, which in the 21st-century context refers to people who want to abolish prisons and end the problem of mass incarceration of black and Latino people.</blockquote>
The activists at the forum agreed that the pursuit of abolition must be conjoined with an effort to tear down and replace what’s left of America’s capitalist structure.
“Anti-capitalism without abolition doesn’t work,” said Janaya Khan, co-founder of Black Lives Matter-Canada.
“Abolition isn’t just about destroying something,” said Cullors. “It’s about the building up of something.”
“We will have to overthrow the economic system under which we live,” said Davis. “We will have to look beyond capitalism. We need something else – whether we want to call it socialism or communism or whatever, we need something else.”
The event concluded with Davis joining hands with members of Black Lives Matter-Los Angeles, as Cullors paid tribute to former Black Liberation Army leader Assata Shakur. Also affiliated with the Black Panthers, Shakur was <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/assata-shakur-convicted-murder-1977-article-1.3008371">convicted</a> of murder for her involvement in a 1973 shootout that left a New Jersey State Trooper dead. She is currently living in exile in Cuba after escaping from prison in 1979.

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‘No, No, No, No’: Radical Black Activist Angela Davis Learns She Is Descended From A Mayflower Passenger

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