7/25/2019 II-20 - Angela Davis (Annotation by Infamosa) http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/ii-20-angela-davis-annotation-by-infamosa 1/8 Peter Ablinger Voices & Piano(1998-2007) für Klavier und CD Angela Davis score annotated by A. Infamosa Performance directions Sixteenths and triplets: strong and clear, poco forte, maybe portato playing also for sixteenths (a little bit like Keith Jarret when he plays jazz eighths - never legato! Chords (all quarters, also single note quarters) : softer, mp, accompanying Audio directionsSingle, centered speaker in front of piano (“like the tenor of a Schubert song-cycle”) with mono left channel only going to audience Pianist plays with small earphone : right channel only (clicktrack + voice)
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7/25/2019 II-20 - Angela Davis (Annotation by Infamosa)
Before anything else, I am a black woman, and I’ve dedicated my life to the struggle for the
liberation of black people, my enslaved, imprisoned people.
I am a communist because I believe that the reason we have been forcibly compelled to eke
out an existence at the very lowest level of American society has to do with the nature of
capitalism. If we’re going to rise out of our oppression, our poverty; if we’re going to cease
being the target of lynch mob… of the lynch mob mentality, of racist policemen, we’ll have to
destroy the American capitalist system. We will have to obliterate a system in which a few
wealthy capitalists are guaranteed the privilege of becoming richer and richer; whereas the
people, who are forced to work for the rich – and especially black people – never take any
signify;cant step forward.
I am a communist because I believe that black people, with whose labor and blood this
country was built, have a right to a great deal of the wealth that has been hoarded in the
hands of the Hughes, the Rockefellers, the Kennedys, the Duponts : all those super powerful
white capitalists of America.
Further, I am a communist because I believe that black men should not be coerced into
fighting a racist, imperialist war in Southeast Asia, where the U.S. government is violently
denying a non-white people the right to control their own lives, just as they suppressed us for
hundreds of years.
I am in prison, but we should remember this: there will continue to be frame-ups such as
mine, and we will be continued to be forced to hide. Just because they caught me doesn’t
mean that every one of us will be captured. They set all their running dogs of me. This they
can afford to do only a few times over.
We must refuse to allow them to strike terror among us, for this was obviously the intent oftheir actions. Furthermore, because of the intensified repression we are experiencing, we’ll
have to begin to talk about creating a viable apparatus to allow freedom fighters, black
freedom fighters, to remain in this country and remain active in the black liberation
struggles.
First of all, I’m sure that J. Edgar Hoover, in collusion with Nixon and Reagan, decided to
make an example of me. The F.B.I. unleashed an enormous amount of manpower in this
search: much, much more than they could afford to use ordinarily.
…Anyone who believes such flagrant lies has been terribly deceived by the Nixon/Reagan
clique; for they’re the ones who devised such underhanded methods of questioning ourstruggle!
I am a communist, a black woman communist. Furthermore, through me, the government is
attempting to further attack and terrorize black people… as they have done in the case of
George Jackson, Huey Newton, Bobby Seal, Erica Huggins… and I could go on and on and
on. Therefore, black people need to talk about rising up, not only in the defense of political
prisoners, but in their own defense.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing which could deter me from continuing to fight with all
my energies for the freedom of my people. And, there’s no need for me to cry because I’ve
been captured! But, there’s all the more reason to be strong and keep fighting. During thetime I was participating in the efforts to free the Solidad brothers, I continually warned that
any one of us could be set up as the next target of the government’s policy of repression – of
the repression of black revolutionaries.
7/25/2019 II-20 - Angela Davis (Annotation by Infamosa)