I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.
We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.
Well I teach in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. So that's my primary work. I lecture on various campuses and in various communities across the country and other parts of the world.
I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.