On Property by Rinaldo Walcott

 

"Society takes no responsibility for Black people's poverty and their social exclusion and isolation, even though the history of our continuing mistreatment and subjection at the hands of that very same society  is well known; rather, our poverty and exclusion are offered as evidence of our inherent inferiority. The worst thing about this is that some members of the Black community have come to believe it about themselves, as both individuals and as a community...it is these ideas that abolition is most concerned with destroying..."