An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

they treated? We should instead center the voices of Afro-Indigenous
peoples and Latinx-Indigenous peoples.
8. We need to imagine a new politics. We need abolition. Abolition
posits that prisons and all of the other manifestations of social control
cannot be reformed. We also need to not just defund the police but
completely dismantle all such forms of violently racist and classist
organization. Abolition asks us to think more broadly about the
potentials of social transformation outside of what actually exists. It
requires a new language to explain the world we actually want. Plenty
of activists, organizations, and individuals have ideas. There are too
many to name. But we should listen to the most vulnerable, the socalled
inarticulate, those who might not speak the way you want, those
whose voices quiver with anger and fear, because they have a lot to
say about transforming a world that hates them. 39
9. Finally, to paraphrase Tupac Shakur, there will never be peace until
we are all free!
We have work to do. But we can do it. Antiblackness and Indigenous
dispossession have to end. Let’s do it together.