Angela Davis's Freedom Is A Constant Struggle

Angela Davis’s book Freedom is a Constant Struggle, is an amazing book that reflects about different topics that we have gone over in class. Davis thoroughly examines the connections in our society that oppress us throughout our history and also around the world. Different topics arose in this book which pertained directly to the views and ideas we reflected in our classroom. Davis speaks about previous liberation struggles, and many of the injustices we serve here in our own country, which have been a main topic of conversation throughout the history of our nation. Davis is an activist who is very expressive when it comes to her rhetoric about oppression and the exploitation of a set group of people. Davis gives us a very detailed insight …show more content…
The reason this piece surprised me is because in my neighborhood I know a lot of people who did not grow up without a father figure in their life. People I used to look at as people who were wasting their time, I began to understand people and their struggle and the reason things are the way it is for them. I began to understand why things happen to people in my neighborhood and that our environment is a big dictator in our lives. These readings made me want to become a better person and also an educator on the plight we face as minorities and to also educate others on why things are the way they are in our neighborhoods. Things like why our education system does not receive as much funding as a private school, also I would like to teach people about terms we have discussed in our class that I am sure people in my neighborhood have probably never heard like privileged poor and doubly disadvantaged. These two factors in our society are very important to us people who come from low income families because we also have to work harder than other individuals to receive things which is a factor of the way our government is set up and