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Influences:Who Is Assata Shakur?
Assata Shakur is a mother, grandmother, and activist who follow in the footsteps of Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, and all of those sisters and brothers who risked their lives so that Black people may one day be free. Assata is not a terrorist; she is a victim of the American governments internal terror campaign, directed against the Black Liberation Movement. Popularly known as COINTELPRO (counterintelligence program), this onslaught against Black people in America resulted in the assassination of, unlawful imprisonment of, and exile of hundreds of Black activists during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Among the casualties and victims were Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Fred Hampton, who were both murdered with the complicity of the government; and Geromino Pratt and Dhoruba bin Wihad, who spent years in prison for crimes they did not commit.Too many people have accepted being lied to and subdued into the silence of inhumanity... Too few confront injustice and struggle for a humane existence.
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