No one talks about it with anything other than either glossed over reverence or disdain. This textbook on revolution provided the needed case studies of what to do and not to do. The only question is what to do now that we're woke? Sleep seems so much more intoxicating and blissful. You must feed them only industry controlled programming. If you want to keep your children sleep, you MUST ban this book immediately and keep the news and the mainstream newsfeeds feeding them. Raw revolution through out the book, if you want to remain sleep, this book is NOT for you 2. That's why they never shared the complete picture.

Many parents from that era were still living in in post-revolution underground mode. That era is so clouded in lies and one sided, obvious, racist write ups that I'm ashamed to be just now digesting it was. Foreword written by Angela Davis.įor potential readers: This moving autobiography provided a much needed history lesson. With pained awareness she portrays the strengths, weaknesses and eventual demise of Black and white revolutionary groups at the hands of the state.Ī major contribution to the history of Black liberation, destined to take its place alongside The Autobiography of Malcolm X and the works of Maya Angelou. With wit and candor, Assata recounts the formative experiences that led her to embrace a life of activism. Publisher: Chicago Review PressBiography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - African American & Black / Criminals. This intensely personal and political autobiography reveals a sensitive and gifted woman, far from the fearsome image of her that is projected by the powers that be. While Assata's detractors continue to label her a ruthless killer, her defenders cite her as the victim of a systematic, racist campaign to criminalise and suppress Black nationalist organisations.

Her case quickly became emblematic of race relations and police brutality in the USA. In 2013 Assata Shakur, founding member of the Black Liberation Army, former Black Panther and godmother of Tupac Shakur, became the first ever woman to make the FBI's most wanted terrorist list.Īssata Shakur's trial and conviction for the murder of a white State Trooper in the spring of 1973 divided America.

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