The late great Royal Goddess Assata Shakur walked a mighty mighty walk! Rising in POWER❤️🖤💚✊🏽💪🏾🫶🏿 Turn to Asada Shakur in her own words and Nineteen Ninety Eight Democracy Now aired her reading an open letter to Pope John Paul the second during his trip to Cuba. She wrote the message after New Jersey State trooper sent the pope a letter asking him to call for her extradition. My name is Satish Decor and I was born and raised in the United States. I am a descendant of Africans who were kidnapped and brought to the Americans as slaves. I spent my early childhood in the racist, segregated South. I later moved to the northern part of the country where I realized that black people were equally victimized by racism and oppression. I grew up and became a political activist, participating in student struggles, the antiwar movement, and most of all in the movement for the liberation of African Americans in the United States. I later joined the Black Panther Party, an organization that was targeted by the CointelPro program, a program that was set up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to eliminate all political opposition to the US government's policies, to destroy the Black Liberation movement in the United States, to discredit activists and to eliminate potential leaders. Under the CointelPro program, many political activists were harassed, imprisoned, murdered, or otherwise neutralized as a result of being targeted by CointelPro. I, like many other young people, when faced with the threat of prison underground exile or death. The FBI, with the help of local police agencies, systematically fed false accusations and fake news articles to the press, accusing me and other activists of crimes we did not commit. Although in my case the charges were eventually dropped or I was eventually acquitted, The national and local police agencies created a situation where, based on their false accusations against me, any police officers could shoot me on sight. It was not until still the Freedom of Information Act was passed in the mid seventies that we begin to see the scope of the United States government persecution of political activists. At this point I think that it is important to make one thing very clear, I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary changes in the structure and in the principles that govern the United States. I advocate self - determination for my people and for all oppressed people inside the United States. Advocate an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime than I am totally guilty. To make a long story short, I was captured in New Jersey in nineteen seventy three after being shot with both arms held in the air and then shot again from the back. I was left on the ground to die and when I did not, I was taken to a local hospital where I was threatened, beaten and tortured. The nineteen seventy seven. I was convicted in a trial that can only be described as illegal lynching. In nineteen seventy nine I was able to escape with the aid of some of my fellow comrades. I saw this as a necessary step not only because I was innocent of the charges against me, but because I knew that the racist legal system in the United States I would receive no. Justin. I was also afraid that I would be murdered in prison. I later arrived in Cuba, where I am currently living in exile as a political refugee. The New Jersey State Police and other law enforcement officials say they want to see me brought to justice, but I would like to know what they mean by justice is tortured justice. I was kept in solitary confinement for more than two years, mostly in men's prisons. Is that just my lawyers were threatened with him. Prisons and imprisoned. Is that justice ? I was tried by an all - white jury without even the paycheck of impartiality and then sentenced to life in prison plus thirty three years. Is that justice ? Let me emphasize size. The justice for me is not the issue I'm addressing here. It is justice for my people that is at stake. When my people receive justice. I am sure that I will receive it too. That is an excerpt of a letter Asada Shakur read an open letter to Pope John paul the second during his trip to Cuba in nineteen ninety eight share believe inspire blacks be. Turn to Asada Shakur in her own words and Nineteen Ninety Eight Democracy Now aired her reading an open letter to Pope John Paul the second during his trip to Cuba. She wrote the message after New Jersey State trooper sent the pope a letter asking him to call for her extradition. My name is Satish Decor and I was born and raised in the United States. I am a descendant of Africans who were kidnapped and brought to the Americans as slaves. I spent my early childhood in the racist, segregated South. I later moved to the northern part of the country where I realized that black people were equally victimized by racism and oppression. I grew up and became a political activist, participating in student struggles, the antiwar movement, and most of all in the movement for the liberation of African Americans in the United States. I later joined the Black Panther Party, an organization that was targeted by the CointelPro program, a program that was set up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to eliminate all political opposition to the US government's policies, to destroy the Black Liberation movement in the United States, to discredit activists and to eliminate potential leaders. Under the CointelPro program, many political activists were harassed, imprisoned, murdered, or otherwise neutralized as a result of being targeted by CointelPro. I, like many other young people, when faced with the threat of prison underground exile or death. The FBI, with the help of local police agencies, systematically fed false accusations and fake news articles to the press, accusing me and other activists of crimes we did not commit. Although in my case the charges were eventually dropped or I was eventually acquitted, The national and local police agencies created a situation where, based on their false accusations against me, any police officers could shoot me on sight. It was not until still the Freedom of Information Act was passed in the mid seventies that we begin to see the scope of the United States government persecution of political activists. At this point I think that it is important to make one thing very clear, I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary changes in the structure and in the principles that govern the United States. I advocate self - determination for my people and for all oppressed people inside the United States. Advocate an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime than I am totally guilty. To make a long story short, I was captured in New Jersey in nineteen seventy three after being shot with both arms held in the air and then shot again from the back. I was left on the ground to die and when I did not, I was taken to a local hospital where I was threatened, beaten and tortured. The nineteen seventy seven. I was convicted in a trial that can only be described as illegal lynching. In nineteen seventy nine I was able to escape with the aid of some of my fellow comrades. I saw this as a necessary step not only because I was innocent of the charges against me, but because I knew that the racist legal system in the United States I would receive no. Justin. I was also afraid that I would be murdered in prison. I later arrived in Cuba, where I am currently living in exile as a political refugee. The New Jersey State Police and other law enforcement officials say they want to see me brought to justice, but I would like to know what they mean by justice is tortured justice. I was kept in solitary confinement for more than two years, mostly in men's prisons. Is that just my lawyers were threatened with him. Prisons and imprisoned. Is that justice ? I was tried by an all - white jury without even the paycheck of impartiality and then sentenced to life in prison plus thirty three years. Is that justice ? Let me emphasize size. The justice for me is not the issue I'm addressing here. It is justice for my people that is at stake. When my people receive justice. I am sure that I will receive it too. That is an excerpt of a letter Asada Shakur read an open letter to Pope John paul the second during his trip to Cuba in nineteen ninety eight share believe inspire blacks be. Ugh share believe inspire blacks be.