Why was afeni shakur in jail

We know that you are afraid of us because we represent a truth of the universe. We are not being tried for any overt act nor for [the] attempt to commit any overt act—we are being tried for bringing within our minds the focusing of the ideas of centuries and trying to bring this knowledge into a workable plan to liberate our people from oppression.

We are being tried only because we know you and because we are not afraid of you. We know of your history of lies, deceit and slavery. We know how you turn nation against nation, tribe against tribe, brother against brother. We know that you are blood-thirsty, pitiless and inhuman.

We have seen you justify the most inhuman crimes—the worst of which was the destruction of men's hearts and minds. We know of your greed. How many civilizations have you destroyed? In this country we know that we are not 2nd class citizens—we know that we are not citizens at all. We know that the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments did not liberate us—that they only legalized slavery and expanded the Dred Scott decision to include the Indians, Spanish speaking and poor whites.

We know that things have not gotten any better—but only progressively worse. We know that this is the rich man's courts, laws, and justice. It is his skies, and air—we can only look at it and breathe it if he says so. We know that wealth is not the fruit of labor but the result of organized protected robbery. Those people, I believe, saved his life.

So what we try to do is be that for the next generation of young people. Celebrity Tupac. The Marin County Sheriff's Department confirmed her passing via Twitter, adding that deputies responded to a possible cardiac arrest situation at p. PT Monday at her Sausalito home and transported her to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead almost one hour later.

She served 11 months in prison, during which time she was pregnant with Tupac, named for the last Incan emperor, who led a rebellion against Spanish conquistadors. She served as her own defense attorney and was acquitted of multiple counts, earning release from prison in , shortly before giving birth to Tupac. Afeni enrolled Tupac in arts programs wherever they lived, allowing him to build the foundation for his future as an iconic rapper and promising actor.