Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Shakur A Leader, Activist, Survivor, And A Black Woman

Assata Shakur A leader, activist, survivor, â€Å"rebel†, mother and a black woman, Assata Shakur is a woman who many may have heard about but not too many know her story or what she accomplished. In her autobiography, Shakur really gives a very descriptive perspective about what she has experienced in her life being apart of the civil rights and Black Panther movements. Throughout the Shakur’s story, she first talks about her experience after being beaten and then being transported to the hospital where New Jersey State Troopers tormented her each day she was there. Her accounts of her visit at the hospital showed that even the black woman could be treated with the same harsh treatment like the black man in society. Assata Shakur was treated like an animal; she was beaten, cuffed, spat on, and along with physical abuse she was verbally abused by law enforcement. She describes how she was manhandled at the turnpike all the way up to her days in the hospital and still treated like an animal by the police. She mentions a time that she went to jail in New Jersey and how it wasn’t anything new to see women beat up and dragged to the jailhouse, especially women of color: In that jail it was nothing to see a woman brought in all beat up. In some cases, the only charge was â€Å"resisting arrest†. A Puerto Rican sister was brought in one night. She had been so badly beaten by the police that the matron on duty didn’t want to admit her. â€Å"I don’t want her dying on my shift,† she kept

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