Black Women Have Had To Develop A

We Have To Look At For Example The Increasing Globalization Of Capital, The Whole System Of Transitional Capitalism Now Which Has Had An Impact On Black Populations - That Has For Example Eradicated Large Numbers Of Jobs That Black People Traditionally Have Been Able To Count Upon And Created Communities Where The Tax Base Is Lost Now As A Result Of Corporations Moving To The Third World In Order To Discover Cheap Labor.

I Think We Have To Really Focus On The Issues Much More Than We May Have In The Past. I Think We Have To Seek To Create Coalitional Strategies That Go Beyond Racial Lines. We Need To Bring Black Communities, Chicano Communities, Puerto Rican Communities, Asian American Communities Together.

We Have Been Basically Persuaded That We Should Not Talk About Racism.

We Have Accumulated A Wealth Of Historical Experience Which Confirms Our Belief That The Scales Of American Justice Are Out Of Balance.

Where Cultural Representations Do Not Reach Out Beyond Themselves, There Is The Danger That They Will Function As The Surrogates For Activism, That They Will Constitute Both The Beginning And The End Of Political Practice.