Angela Walker resents being called “African-American,” but it’s the “American” part that she really hates.

Walker spoke at a recent “Black Lives Matter” forum at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she renounced America and the free market economic system.

“I don’t consider myself an American. This is not my country. I was born here but I am black.

“I am not African-American. I will claim my African descent before I…That stars and stripes has no place in my house. I won’t fly it. I won’t salute it. This is not my country,” Walker said, according to audio of her speech released by Media Trackers.


The former legislative director for Milwaukee’s Amalgamated Transit Union Local 998 also denounced what she calls “capitalist white supremacy.”

“We have got to be willing to, to confront truth in not only the history of where we are here but in the history of this country. This history is blood soaked. This history is genocide. This history is rape, theft, and murder,” Walker said.

The union organizer, who was born and grew up in Milwaukee, ran for Milwaukee County sheriff in 2014, describing herself as a “free range socialist.”

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Solidarity reports Walker received 67,000 votes, “representing 20.3% of the votes cast.”

“To me being a socialist means that we value things that are for the public good: having the proper income distribution, making sure that people aren’t doing without when others have more than they need,” Walker said in an interview with New Politics.

She says she studied history in college, but didn’t graduate.

“I would have liked to specialize in African American and women’s history, but I didn’t continue. I dropped out in my last year because I could make more money as a bus driver than I could as a teacher,” she tells New Politics.

When she worked for the union, she says she was allied with the anti-capitalist Occupy protests.

“I was part of the Occupy movement, so I brought that into the work I did for the union. The ATU nationally supported the Occupy movement. I met a lot of people that I’m still friends with,” according to Walker.