Another layer of white supremacy was in the courts as Assata was being charged for bank robbery and kidnapping, which seem to be a stage theater to give the illusion of a fair trial when in fact it was just another tool to continue to subjugate African American. The bank robbery case was suspicious when the F.B.I. started to fingerprint and took photographs of Assata in the same clothing as the bank robbers and at the same angle. However, what got the case, postpone was the judge and his inability to contain his prejudice saying that he thought Assata was guilty and when the case resumed still were not able to get a conviction. The other case of the kidnapping of the drug dealer (James freeman), which quickly fell apart when Freeman testify and was asked if he was being coerce to frame Assata, he …show more content…
Each of the trails were staged with insubstantial evidence that any objective jury would be able to see. However, this was not the case in a culture where African Americans have been associated with many negative characteristics. The cases also seem similar to what happen to many freed slaves, when vagrant laws were passed. If African Americas were without any type of work, they were arrested and given a fine. When they were unable to pay, a benevolent white man would come to the rescue and in turn would only ask to repay the debt, a debt that would increase and would make them slaves again. This system was another way of oppression, now the courts continue to oppress African Americas by framing their leader and delegitimize civil rights groups. One of the inmates that Assata meets in jail, puts it into perspective “you’ll be in jail wherever you go…if they are honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they don’t know what it feels like to be