During this past weekend’s “Black Matters: The Futures of Black Scholarship and Activism” conference at the University of Texas at Austin, Angela Davis admitted that she would be voting for Hillary Clinton in this upcoming election, saying that it was more important to stop Donald Trump than to let anything else stand in the way.
“I am going to the polls next month and I am going to vote AGAINST Donald Trump,” she said, later adding, “I have serious problems with the other candidate, but I am not so narcissistic to say I cannot bring myself to vote for her.”
She also pleaded with voters to turn out for this election, stressing the importance of exercising voting rights: “Too much energy went into the struggle for voting rights not to go to the polls.”
As pointed out by The Root, in addition to speaking out about the need to stop Donald Trump, Davis opened her remarks by saying that they were on “colonized land,” bringing indigenous people into the picture at a time when the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and other First Nations are fighting against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which threatens not only their water but also sacred burial grounds.