Assata: In her own words


My name is Assata ("she who struggles") Shakur ("the thankful one"),
and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government
persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the
political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US
government's policy towards people of color. I am an ex political
prisoner, and I have been living in exile in Cuba since 1984. I have
been a political activist most of my life, and although the U.S.
government has done everything in its power to criminalize me, I am not
a criminal, nor have I ever been one. In the 1960s, I participated in
various struggles: the black liberation movement, the student rights
movement, and the movement to end the war in Vietnam. I joined the
Black Panther Party. By 1969 the Black Panther Party had become the
number one organization targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO program.
because the Black Panther Party demanded the total liberation of black
people, J. Edgar Hoover called it "greatest threat to the internal
security of the country" and vowed to destroy it and its leaders and
activists.

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