In my opinion abolition is the only viable solution because legalism has harmed us tremendously and it continues to be weaponized against us. Incremental reforms won’t cut it considering that the business of prisons have so much money to lose. The same people that opposed the end of slavery are involved in the prison industrial complex and they are a brute and violent force to be reckoned with. For over 400 years the Americas have been a slave colony and the ones that profit from it don’t want it to end. Angela Davis has been through the black struggle in its entirety so she understands that we have to tear our current system down and rebuild it. She has lost all faith in our justice system and rightfully so because she once was a victim of it. The fact that 1 in 3 black people will go to jail or prison in comparison to 1 and 17 white males is mind boggling to me. These type of statistics are a justification for declaring a state of emergency. In the “13th” one of the speakers on behalf on of the prison system said that if he can keep crime out of our neighborhoods he should be able to ask us for a dollar. That is the problem right there, human decency shouldn’t be incentivized by monetary gain. You cannot serve both God and Mammon, you must love one and hate the other is what the scriptures say. Many of our heroes like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and Marcus Garvey understood this and paid a high price with their lives. Marcus Garvey was a Pan Africanist that was trying to take black people back to Africa because of our horrible living conditions and he was charged with mail fraud and deported back to Jamaica. President Joe Biden just pardoned him posthumously but it’s 2025 so how does this help us as a people? We live in the legacy of social death, natal alienation and anti blackness and I believe that our liberation won’t be a bloodless one unfortunately because even when we want to leave in peace its still a problem and Garvey’s life is a testament of that truth.
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