Opinion

Assata Shakur’s shameless hero-worshippers deserve our disgust and condemnation

Anyone who who refuses to condemn allies who celebrate a cop-killer deserves your contempt, so note the reactions after various lefties hailed the late “great” Assata Shakur, a k a Joanne Chesimard, the convicted murderer of a New Jersey state trooper who spent the last half-century enjoying political asylum in Communist Cuba.

Consider the Democratic nominees for New York mayor and New Jersey governor: Zohran Mamdani refuses to shameful and depraved.”

A tribute to fugitive cop killer Assata Shakur posted by the Chicago Teachers Union. @CTULocal1/X

And it seems American Federation of Teachers chief Randi Weingarten won’t slap down the union’s Chicago affiliate for honoring Shakur as a “revered elder of Black liberation.”

Randi’s too busy selling her Trump-is-a-fascist book.

On also 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 choice to run NYC schools, ex-Rep. Jamal Bowman, last year justified his decision to glorify the fugitive cop-killer on a Bronx middle school’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 1970s carrying out bombings, murders of police officers, bank robberies and even a skyjacking. 

Bad enough that a few rappers and far-lefties romanticize such monsters; worse that Mamdani, Sherrill, Weingarten and so on pretend it’s OK to treat them as heroes.

At least they’re telling us who they really are.

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