{"id":370312,"date":"2021-04-01T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=370312"},"modified":"2021-04-01T17:00:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T21:00:43","slug":"marxist-angela-davis-calls-on-students-at-pricey-california-school-to-dismantle-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/marxist-angela-davis-calls-on-students-at-pricey-california-school-to-dismantle-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Marxist Angela Davis Calls on Students at Pricey California School to \u2018Dismantle Capitalism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmarxist-angela-davis-calls-on-students-at-pricey-california-school-to-dismantle-capitalism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=370312&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-186.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Headlining a diversity and inclusion webinar hosted by an elite California K-12 preparatory school on Wednesday, Marxist Angela Davis called on students at the $47,300 a year prep school to &#8220;dismantle capitalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Davis, a militant black power activist and former Communist Party member, headlined the final session of the Head-Royce School&#8217;s 2021 CommunityEd series.<\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Campus<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0 \">\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/communist-radical-angela-davis-speaks-at-elite-california-school\/\"><strong>Marxist Angela Davis Calls on Students at Pricey California School to \u2018Dismantle Capitalism&#8217;<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/christian-university-ditches-crusader-mascot\/\"><strong>Christian University Ditches Crusader Mascot<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/brown-university-votes-for-reparations-to-atone-for-abolitionist-founder\/\"><strong>Brown University Votes For Reparations to Atone For Abolitionist Founder<\/strong><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Ultimately I think we&#8217;re going to have to dismantle capitalism if we really want to move in a progressive direction, if we want our children and children&#8217;s children and their children to begin to move along a trajectory that is described by freedom,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Davis has long been accused of anti-Semitism, beginning with her <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/yale-taps-bds-activist-as-mlk-day-speaker\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">support<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the Soviet Union&#8217;s oppression of Jewish dissidents. She also backs the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Head-Royce spokeswoman Jennifer Beeson told the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that the school considered Davis&#8217;s record before inviting her to speak, but ultimately felt that the lecture would be a good venue for students &#8220;to focus on her activism.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;There&#8217;s kind of a complex and layered history that she has,&#8221; Beeson said. &#8220;We viewed this as a teachable moment for students interested in activism, which is a core to being in our community.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Davis landed on the FBI&#8217;s most wanted list for her involvement in an attempted courtroom takeover in 1970. Guns she&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/harvard-new-home-angela-davis-papers-180968191\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">purchased<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were used in a plot to free three murder suspects from the Marin County Civic Center in California, which left four people dead. Davis spent 18 months in jail and faced three felony charges for providing the weapons used in the attack, but was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/black-history\/angela-davis\">acquitted<\/a> in 1972.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Davis went on to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?id=SQtWAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=5908%2C189855\">receive<\/a> the Soviet Union&#8217;s<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;International Lenin Peace Prize in 1979 and&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aparchive.com\/metadata\/youtube\/45045389d6759defac6845a2f3bdfcea\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">praised<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8220;glorious&#8221; dictator Vladimir Lenin and his &#8220;great&#8221; Bolshevik Revolution, which ushered in a century of communism and left an estimated <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/100-years-of-communismand-100-million-dead-1510011810\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">100 million people<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> dead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Wednesday&#8217;s event, Davis spoke on subjects ranging from the coronavirus pandemic to the Black Lives Matter movement. She urged students to develop an international focus and &#8220;struggle against&#8221; the notion that the United States is the best country in the world.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Of course it&#8217;s the United States that claims to represent America, and I think that we have to struggle against this notion that this is the best country in the world, that we are always the ones to give leadership even when we&#8217;re talking about social justice struggles,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We have to take internationalism into consideration.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She also blamed American businesses for making life &#8220;unlivable&#8221; for immigrants in their home countries, driving them to seek shelter in the United States and subsequently imprisoning them.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The detention of immigrants is the most profitable sector of the private prison industry and this is much connected to struggles against the prison industrial complex,&#8221; Davis said. &#8220;And the fact that we have mass incarceration driven by racism is a product of capitalism.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Davis ensured students that she was aware of the carbon footprint she&#8217;s left on the world through her extensive traveling through the Soviet bloc and beyond. That footprint, Davis told the students, is entangled in the &#8220;heteropatriarchy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;This is the first time I have not been on a plane for an entire year since I was a young child. I also have to say parenthetically that my carbon footprint isn&#8217;t what it should be, and I&#8217;m aware of that,&#8221; Davis said. &#8220;I&#8217;m aware of the connections of struggles against climate change, for environmental justice, our struggles against racism and heteropatriarchy and capitalist exploitation.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Decades of activism, Davis told students, taught her that there are always new social justice battles to fight, including the fight for black transgender women, a community that is &#8220;subject to more forms of violence&#8221; than any other, Davis said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We think of freedom as an endpoint. But I don&#8217;t think there is an endpoint. Freedom is an infinite struggle. There&#8217;s always more work to do,&#8221; Davis said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 1,000 Head-Royce students and community members viewed the webinar, according to Head of School Crystal Land. Head-Royce director of diversity and inclusion Johara Tucker moderated the discussion.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tuition at Head-Royce starts at $33,100 for kindergarten through fifth grade. Head-Royce charges $37,200 for middle school and $47,300 for high school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Davis frequently speaks at colleges and universities across the United States. Yale University selected Davis to speak at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/yale-taps-bds-activist-as-mlk-day-speaker\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">event<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> last year. Butler University this week&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thebutlercollegian.com\/2021\/03\/letter-to-the-editor-students-demand-answers-action\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">canceled<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> an event where the controversial figure was expected to speak after facing pressure from Jewish students.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n\t\t<!-- \/339474670\/Freebeacon\/InContent --><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headlining a diversity and inclusion webinar hosted by an elite California K-12 preparatory school on Wednesday, Marxist Angela Davis called on students at the $47,300 a year prep school to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311538,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-186.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Marxist Angela Davis Calls on Students at Pricey California School to \u2018Dismantle Capitalism\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-186.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Marxist Angela Davis Calls on Students at Pricey California School to \u2018Dismantle Capitalism\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}