Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement

by Albert Woodfox

Black Lives Matter was formed to campaign against violence and systemic racism toward black people. How was that being racist? When you see organizations like Black Lives Matter under attack for being “racist,” you are seeing the agenda of an unjust economic system at play—a system that seeks to separate groups of people within the majority to benefit the top 1 percent. If we can’t allow diversity, if we can’t accept our differences, if we can’t see one another as equal, if every race can’t begin to function on an equal footing with every other race in this world, we will never be able to unite, which means we will never be able to demand economic justice for all.