Assata an autobiography tells the story of Assata Shakur and in doing so shows the many facets of white supremacy within the American culture. White supremacy is not just the Ku Klux Klan spewing rhetoric of being a superior race and all other races being inferior, it more than this because it can affect how one views his or herself within a certain society. Also, Assata Shakur tells what happed in her trial and she recalls her childhood through her college years to show the extent of white supremacy as she removes the veil and sees how things are stacked against her and her fellow brother and sisters.
The book starts with a very explicit scene of what occurred on May 2, 1973 on the New Jersey Turnpike. The state troopers pulled the car Assata was in and in a daze unable to do much was only a spectator of her torture as she was pulled out of the car and assaulted by the state troopers. As, Assata is on the pavement within an inch of death, she hears the officers asking if she was dead already. Her torture did not end on the New Jersey Turnpike, in the hospital the cops harassed her not only physically but psychologically. The cops would point a gun at her and pull the trigger. Another, cop told her “how he fought in World War II on the wrong side…if Hitler had won, the world wouldn’t be in the mess it is in”. Furthermore, when …show more content…
Many Parents believe that education system is intended to give children a way to improve their status, but it fails many minority groups. Assata experienced schools in the south and in the north, illustrates short comings the education system. She points out that segregated schools were not the best by no means, the books would be old, torn, and outdated, the schools would be poorly funded. However, the teacher in segregated schools would be more interested in teaching and helping children, in
The book starts with a very explicit scene of what occurred on May 2, 1973 on the New Jersey Turnpike. The state troopers pulled the car Assata was in and in a daze unable to do much was only a spectator of her torture as she was pulled out of the car and assaulted by the state troopers. As, Assata is on the pavement within an inch of death, she hears the officers asking if she was dead already. Her torture did not end on the New Jersey Turnpike, in the hospital the cops harassed her not only physically but psychologically. The cops would point a gun at her and pull the trigger. Another, cop told her “how he fought in World War II on the wrong side…if Hitler had won, the world wouldn’t be in the mess it is in”. Furthermore, when …show more content…
Many Parents believe that education system is intended to give children a way to improve their status, but it fails many minority groups. Assata experienced schools in the south and in the north, illustrates short comings the education system. She points out that segregated schools were not the best by no means, the books would be old, torn, and outdated, the schools would be poorly funded. However, the teacher in segregated schools would be more interested in teaching and helping children, in