Political activist Angela Davis says she is not impressed with America’s presidential candidates. Davis, who’s work surrounds issues of gender, race, class and prison, believes America needs a new party, “a party that is grounded in labor, a party that can speak to all of the issues around racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia—what is happening in the world. We don’t yet have that party."
When asked about Donald Trump she said she condemns Donald Trump and his failure to denounce the endorsement of David Duke, former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, and notes that, “the Ku Klux Klan, of course, evokes the racist, terrorist, violent history associated with the era following slavery up to the present. It doesn’t seem to me to be a question whether one would disavow the Ku Klux Klan.”
On Hillary Clinton she said "It seems to me that if she’s interested in the votes of not only African Americans and people of color, but of all people who are progressive and attempting to speak out against the racism of over incarceration, she would simply say, ‘I was wrong then,’ that ‘superpredator’ is a racially coded term. It’s so interesting that she is—she tends to rely on a kind of universalism that prevents her from acknowledging the extent to which racism is so much a force and an influence in this country.”
In my opinion, I kind of agree with her because I feel like this election is kind of a joke in a way. At first I was thinking about voting for Hilary Clinton but after analyzing her history of the previous years I just feel like she's saying things only to get votes but won't do if she were to win. With Trump I feel like he is just a joke and the other republican candidates I feel like I can't trust them. The only person so far who I think might be a good candidate is Bernie Sanders.
Source: http://www.essence.com/2016/03/30/angela-davis-america-needs-new-political-party
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