America’s First Female “Terrorist”

America’s First Female “Terrorist”

America loves to call revolutionaries “terrorists.”

In the U.S., a lynch mob may get labeled as “patriots” or “concerned citizens.” While Black freedom fighters get branded as “thugs” or “terrorists”.

The Ku Klux Klan was allowed by the U.S. government to burn Black neighborhoods, kill people in the street and even form lynch mobs, but they don’t get called domestic terrorists. Compare that posture to: A Black woman who has the temerity to challenge white supremacy, police brutality and a government built through violence in public.

Out of the two, I’m sure you know which one is the “terrorist” according to the media and law enforcement.

The FBI made history in 2013 by adding Joanne Deborah Chesimard, AKA Assata Shakur, to its Most Wanted Terrorists list, funny enough, while Obama was president.

The first woman ever.

The U.S. government didn’t decide to place this label on various white supremacist militias stockpiling assault rifles in the woods, or one of the far-right terrorists the FBI somehow keeps “losing track of.”

(The call is coming from inside the house…)

Nope, they decided that they should bestow this honor upon a 1970s Black liberation activist who’d been living peacefully in exile in Cuba for decades.

I’m sure we all can sleep better at night knowing the “terroristic threat” of a grandmother teaching political theory in Havana is being closely watched by the FBI.