“Only A Fool Lets Someone Else Tell Him Who His Enemy Is”
Assata Shakur
While our sister Assata Shakur was imprisoned, the enemy prosecuted (persecuted) her for six alleged crimes. Three separate cases would be eventually dismissed for lack of evidence. Assata goes on to inform us in her book that “she was a Black revolutionary and because of that, she was charged and accused of every alleged crime, in which a woman has participated.” The alleged crimes were all done by men. Assata wrote about how the enemy plastered pictures and ‘wanted’ posters of her in post offices, subways, hotels, airports, banks, the newspapers, and television.
When Assata was first captured, the guards would spit in her food, and she had (24) hour police surveillance in front of her cell. The police severely beat her while she was recovering in the hospital. Her leg had gotten badly infected and swollen from the tight handcuff that was used to shackle her. The police would deliberately turn down the thermostat in her room until it was freezing and would press empty (unloaded) guns to her head and pull the trigger. Although Assata’s arm was paralyzed, she never let her injuries prevent her from defending herself with violent resistance against prison guards, bailiffs, sheriffs, and deputies. In her many appearances in the courtroom, our sister never stood up for the judge.
Our Black Queen kept the tradition of African resistance alive!
Although she was kept in solitary confinement (the hole) for more than 2- years, her spirit never broke! She would also spend more than 20 months in solitary confinement within (2) men’s prisons.
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