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 Chuck D joined the State Department some time ago, as Lee Camp notes: Between this and the story of Angela Davis , people should take note of celebrity activists and what unbridled capitalism does to their fighting spirit (hint: they tend to sell out). 

The failure of political imagination afflicts the casual voter and the erstwhile radical icon too, who pop up in election years to declare their surrender to the forces they otherwise claim to oppose.  -- Margaret Kimberley, on fallen activist Angela Davis' support for Kamala Harris.