UT-Austin speech features Angela Davis bashing capitalism, calling U.S. racist

A prominent communist activist typically paid between $25,000 and $38,000 per speech used a recent keynote address at the University of Texas at Austin to bash capitalism as exploitative and call the murder of Tyre Nichols by black police officers “systemic racism.”

Angela Davis, the vice presidential nominee for the Communist Party USA in 1980 who was previously on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, was the keynote speaker at UT-Austin’s Eric Williams Memorial Lecture on April 4.

Davis, who supports reparations, started the lecture by promoting the theory that slavery in the West did not end because of Enlightenment-era ideas about liberty and equality, but because industrial capitalists wished to engage in more pernicious racial exploitation.