"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them"
—Assata Shakur
"You killed a million people in Iraq".
During a heated BBC debate, British politician George Galloway strongly accused former UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith of being responsible for the deaths of about one million Iraqis because she supported the Iraq War.
Captured Moments: Kyla Jenee Lacey's spoken-word poetry strips down the truth of white privilege—a raw, historical, relentless oppression of our people.
In 1996, Gary exposed how the CIA hired drug traffickers, to sell massive amounts of cocaine in the United States, in order to raise untraceable funds to finance a terrorist organization who were trying to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. These massive shipments of cocaine ultimately sparked the crack epidemic that decimated inner cities during the 90's.
As a result Mainstream media vilified Gary Webb & destroyed his career which also destroyed his marriage. But he refused to back down. In 2004 he was found dead with 2 bullet wounds to his head.
His death was ruled a suicide.
This man literally lost everything to give us a glimpse of the truth. Don't let his memory or what he stood for fade.