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REVIEW: 'If They Come in the Morning'A review of 'If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance' by Angela Davis I was young. I couldn’t read very well but the Black Power Movement that was happening in the U, S of A, fascinated me. In Britain I saw no black people talking about having power for themselves, but over there they were, and the person who became the figurehead of the movement was Angela Davis. So I got this book of hers called, ‘If They Come in The Morning: Voices of Resistance.’ It took me ages to read it, most of it was way over my head, much of it is wrapped in her communist ideology, and I’m not sure if I’d recommend it as teenaged reading, but the important thing for me was that I was reading the words of a powerful black woman. Angela Davis taught me that I did not have to tolerate the racism that I was suffering in the playground, she told me that I was not alone, and it was in this book that I first came across the word ‘Solidarity’, then I realised the importance of working together. |
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