Brother, I graduated high school in South Carolina in 1974 and went on to an HBCU in Alabama until 1978. As a former, Navy Russian linguist, let me tell you -- I'm more than aware of "The Spook Who Sat By The Door." I believed my studying languages (French & Spanish in college, in addition to Russian in th Navy) was a way of my not only knowing what the hayell was happening in our names, but to be a necessary part of something bigger than me, the lessons of which I could share -- that would benefit US in the knowing.

As for Assata, I also know her story well, which is why I continue to stand, not only with her -- but Fidel. When The Changeling and Brother Ass-Coverer, Eric Holder (those perfectly "selected" tools of the White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy) designated Assata a domestic terrorist some 40 years after the fact in May of 2013, with a a $2 million bounty levied by New Jersey on her head -- I wrote, "Family, please stop being misled by the deus ex machina that is the Changeling. He and his cohorts would have you believe that theirs are the mighty shoulders upon which we stand -- they are not, but hers are."

While I always believe there's plenty I can still learn as long as I still draw breath, I'm an old-head Brother -- one who's had to go through it to get to it.