I am Manning Marable. The voice of black political journalism has always proved to be decisive throughout Black history. From David Walker’s appeal in 1829, to the political journalism of Frederick Douglass, to the Black Panther newspaper, and that’s part of the reason why Mumia is so dangerous to the state. That critique of democracy, it doesn’t ground itself to the view that reforming an unjust and inherently undemocratic system is the way to advance the interests of Blacks, or poor people, or working class people or women, and that’s the tradition from which he speaks.