Nikole Hannah-Jones Writes Tribute to Cop Killer Assata Shakur
“Shakur was lionized in rap songs and taught in college classes, and her likeness could be found in classrooms and community centers in Black neighborhoods across the nation”
Shakur died earlier this year in Cuba. Is anyone surprised that Jones admires her?
The College Fix reports:
‘1619 Project’ professor Nikole Hannah-Jones pens tribute to convicted cop killer
Howard University professor and “1619 Project” creator Nikole Hannah-Jones is facing criticism for a tribute she wrote recently for the late Assata Shakur, a convicted murderer and terrorist.
In the piece published Dec. 16 in The New York Times, Hannah-Jones said Shakur compared herself to “Black freedom fighters” such as Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman.
“Shakur was lionized in rap songs and taught in college classes, and her likeness could be found in classrooms and community centers in Black neighborhoods across the nation,” she wrote, adding that the activist’s history was actually quite “complicated.”
Before fleeing the country, Shakur was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, a domestic terrorist group that one scholar linked to “at least 20 fatalities.”
An “all-white” jury found Shakur to be responsible for one of those 20, a New Jersey police officer, in 1977, according to the piece. She later escaped prison and fled to Cuba, seeking political asylum.
In 2005, the FBI labeled Shakur a domestic terrorist, and, eight years later, added her to the “most wanted” list. As a result, she “was forced back into hiding,” and lost contact with her only child, according to the tribute.
“Liberation came with unbearable costs. But Shakur, who saw herself as an escaped slave, died free,” Hannah-Jones concluded.
However, Hannah-Jones’ portrayal of the activist, much like her claims about America’s supposedly racist founding in the “1619 Project,” were met with swift criticism.
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She died free?!? In Cuba?!?
You keep using that word. I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
I will heartily recommend Cuba for ALL domestic troublemakers who wish to be “free.”
Why not? I’m sure she, with her communist party connections, was free to do whatever she liked. Certainly freer than she’d have been in a US prison.
Does anyone care with this ugly angry lying racist mulatto actually thinks?
I do
same way I do when hamas speaks or blmplo speak out
they are criminals and the can not be ignored
Who? Other ugly angry lying racist mulattos.
6% of her flock commit more than 55% of violent crimes in america
26-27% of all snap recipients are black
wic 47-50% blck
https://www.theglobalstatistics.com/us-welfare-statistics-by-race/
housing?
student “loans”
student grants?
etc etc
by their own accounts
blacks are more likely to be kicked out of schools for bad behavior and pulled over more for “minor” issues while driving etc etc
so since likes to act like she reps all poc
have her deal with those facts
“blacks are more likely to be kicked out of schools for bad behavior and pulled over more for “minor” issues while driving etc etc”
All because whites pick on them, don’t you know?
Amazingly, all of these bad things happen independently of me completely ignoring them in my daily routine. Just look at DoJ statistics for any year. 90% of blacks are murdered by other blacks. Whitey isn’t the problem here.
I really do love that photograph. It is so valuable to know when crazy is seeping out, what color you should look for.
Someone please tell this crank that BLM is over and race grifting has reached it’s shelf life