Angela Davis in the "Are prisons obsolete" has similar points as Donna Jones in “Invidious Life”. Both of them argues that it's hard for African American to walk off their past because most of the historical events that had in the past do contribute in our present. In her text, Angela develops an argument about the U.S punishment system -prisons- to the other racialized event that occurred in the past. Angela does present a very interesting point about how does the U.S punishment system depend usually on race. Today, the rate of African-American incarceration is nearly six times the rate of White American which does support Angela's argument of how do the racialized historical events in the past do participate on the rate of African American
