Assata Shakur’s shameless hero-worshippers deserve – Latest News
Anyone who who refuses to sentence allies who have fun a cop-killer deserves your contempt, so be aware the reactions after numerous lefties hailed the late “great” Assata Shakur, a okay a Joanne Chesimard, the convicted assassin of a New Jersey state trooper who spent the final half-century having fun with political asylum in Communist Cuba.
Consider the Democratic nominees for New York mayor and New Jersey governor: Zohran Mamdani refuses to condemn the Democratic Socialists of America for his or her sick social-media tribute to Shakur; Rep. Mikie Sherrill has merely been notably silent, at the same time as incumbent Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy known as the DSA tribute “shameful and depraved.”
A tribute to fugitive cop killer Assata Shakur posted by the Chicago Teachers Union. @CTULocal1/X
And it appears American Federation of Teachers chief Randi Weingarten gained’t slap down the union’s Chicago affiliate for honoring Shakur as a “revered elder of Black liberation.”
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Randi’s too busy promoting her Trump-is-a-fascist e book.
On Instagram, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams known as Shakur a “Freedom Fighter and Human Rights Icon.” Bronx Assemblyman George Alvarez additionally paid tribute: “Her life was marked by struggle, resilience, and a relentless fight against oppression”
NJ gubernatorial candidate Rep. Mikie Sherrill AP
Mamdani’s rumored option to run NYC colleges, ex-Rep. Jamal Bowman, final 12 months justified his resolution to glorify the fugitive cop-killer on a Bronx center college’s “Wall of Honor” mural when he ran the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action.
Chesimard’s Black Liberation Army — an even-more-extremist offshoot of the Black Panthers — was a Marxist-Leninist gang that spent the Nineteen Seventies finishing up bombings, murders of police officers, bank robberies and even a skyjacking.
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Bad enough that a few rappers and far-lefties romanticize such monsters; worse that Mamdani, Sherrill, Weingarten and so forth fake it’s OK to deal with them as heroes.
At least they’re telling us who they are surely.
