Dear Comrade Angela: History Isn’t Always Black and White

Is it too late for Angela Davis to understand she has much in common with all Americans — even those without Mayflower connections?

The look on the face of communist revolutionary and black nationalist Angela Davis when informed that she descends from the Mayflower was a sight to behold. Davis hadn’t looked this overwhelmed since she received the Lenin Prize in Moscow in 1979 before a room of clapping Russian white folks. To be sure, it was not a look of joy, like the way she beamed aside Fidel Castro or Berlin Wall buddy Erich Honecker, or in images with her Frankfurt School Marxist mentor, Herbert Marcuse, or in campaign appearances aside Communist Party USA goon Gus Hall when they ran on presidential tickets together. This look was more akin to her FBI “Most Wanted” poster in the 1970s, when she was wanted for kidnapping and murder.
Angela Davis was stunned.
When Henry Louis Gates Jr., host of PBS’s Finding Your Roots, asked Angela, “Did you ever in your wildest dreams think that you descended from the people who laid the foundations for this country?” the critical race theorist took a deep breath and repeatedly objected, “Never, never, never, never, never.”
Yes, Angela. It’s true.
It’s fascinating to watch leftists insist that gender is not binary while they treat race as strictly binary.
“Do you know what you’re looking at?” goaded Gates, who’s also director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. “That is a list of the passengers on the Mayflower.”
Angela expressed utter disbelief. The poor woman looked like she might fall off her chair, or maybe dash to a window to jump through. How cruel, Professor Gates! Why, how could this be? The white folks on the Mayflower were, after all, white folks. Angela’s long life of suffering in America was due to these cretins. How could she be related to such English devils?
“No, I can’t believe this,” Davis replied. “No, my ancestors did not come here on the Mayflower.”
Angela has been conditioned by our universities to detest such people. How could they possibly be her ancestors?
The answer is that histor...