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She's someone I really want to deep dive, but I have never taken the time. Her monologue that begins at 1:24 minutes into this clip was my first exposure to her and I love that moment when you realize these awful examples she's citing are not just awful in their own right, but that they drive home her undeniable point at the end, in response to what sounds like it was a bullshit question.
She’s lived a really full life. Even her Wikipedia page is a good overview. She’s the type of activist a lot of keyboard warriors would like to pretend they are.
Did the wiki happen to mention the Marin County courthouse?
Yes. A pretty detailed write up as well. Seems like an easy thing to look up.
Yes, but then he couldn't be here just asking questions.
Can I be here just asking questions?
Sure you can, you don't need my permission. Will they be disingenuous questions or actual questions? :)
Met Angela in the Haight. She was with Katie Cleaver, Eldrige's wife. Amazing how one can quickly turn from helping murder people to a "political activist'. I don't think I need to look it up,
She explicitly did not help murder people. She was literally acquitted. Maybe you do need to look it up.
I know what happened.
Then you should have just opened with calling her a murderer instead of your rather coy question about the courthouse, as if somehow that event would have been omitted when it's a rather famous part of her history.
I didn't call her anything.
OK buddy. You were just asking questions right?
Did she buy guns?
Were those guns used in a murder?
Oh look you you can almost speak your point non-disingenuously after all.
You can think whatever you like of Angela Davis, that's not for me to decide (and despite multiple comments from you, I'm still not sure what that is), I just wish you wouldn't have tried so hard to coyly imply instead of stating it. Thanks for almost coming out and making a plain point.
As for me,
Asking questions you don't answer. The answer to both is demonstrably yes, BTW. So, there are families with missing members. The way it goes I guess.
Second time you've called me coy, BTW. For someone who learns from a wiki, I suppose I am.
Angela, despite what her wiki might say, has a jaded past. People who are guilty are acquitted every day. The reverse is also true. The law is not perfect.