Mutulu Shakur
“Mutulu Shakur possessed the same healing spirit of our Ancestors ‘Root Doctors’ enslaved on plantations. Shakur like his Ancestral predecessors (Harriet Tubman, Gullah Jack) understood that healing was not from any special power, but from the awareness, courage, and determination to be free from the sickness of oppression.” - CNK
Mutulu Shakur a New Afrikan Freedom-Fighter and Healer has made his transition to the Ancestral Realm. Comrad Mutulu Shakur thank you for your committed service beginning at age 16 to the Black Nation; as a New Afrikan Ancestor your name will be called often and your legacy will not be forgotten – Ashe!
During the 1960’s into the middle 1970’s the U.S government was faced with their losing imperialistic war in Vietnam and a massive Black civil unrest war inside this country; the U.S. government through the CIA used heroin as a ‘narco-strategy’ to address both.
The CIA assisted in the opium/heroin trade that economically enriched their anti-Viet Cong allies; supplied the growing demand for heroin by self-medicating traumatized U.S. troops; and saturated Black communities with heroin to corrupt and criminalize.
Witnessing the ravaging impact of heroin addiction in Black communities RNA member Mutulu Shakur used acupuncture as a complementary medical intervention tool to heal the Black community of pain and suffering specifically heroin addiction.
Shakur became proficient as an acupuncturist working with Lincoln Detox, an addiction treatment program founded in 1970 in the South Bronx by the Black Panther Party; the acupuncture treatment subdued withdrawal symptoms experienced by drug addicts.
Indeed, Shakur was a practitioner and advocate of Black health self-determination ‘self-healing’. Becoming Dr. Shakur he was the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America (BAAANA) and the Harlem Institute of Acupuncture.
Through BAAANA he continued his committed work treating thousands of poor and elderly Black patients addicted to heroin who would otherwise have no access to alternative treatment of this type.
Dr. Shakur understood that racial oppression was pathology producing that facilitated mass sicknesses; that mainstream health care in America was racist, often ineffective, and neglectful; that Black folks must develop their own alternative complementary health infrastructure.
It’s unfortunate that over 50 years ago Shakur initiated and engaged in health intervention to address the heroin plague and we didn’t build and expand on his foundation.
Shakur was imprisoned as a political prisoner over the past 3 decades. During this time our movement failed to develop an alternative complementary health care infrastructure to address the massive chronic diseases we’ve been plagued by.
I close, with a Rest-in-Power Salutation to Dr. Mutulu Shakur a New Afrikan Freedom-Fighter and Internal Reparation Specialist who embodied Point #15 of the New Afrikan Creed:
“I will be patient and uplifting with the deaf, dumb and blind, and i will seek by word and deed to heal the Black family, to bring into the Movement and into the Community mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters left by the wayside.”
“Mutulu Shakur possessed the same healing spirit of our Ancestors ‘Root Doctors’ enslaved on plantations. Shakur like his Ancestral predecessors (Harriet Tubman, Gullah Jack) understood that healing was not from any special power, but from the awareness, courage, and determination to be free from the sickness of oppression.” - CNK
Mutulu Shakur a New Afrikan Freedom-Fighter and Healer has made his transition to the Ancestral Realm. Comrad Mutulu Shakur thank you for your committed service beginning at age 16 to the Black Nation; as a New Afrikan Ancestor your name will be called often and your legacy will not be forgotten – Ashe!
During the 1960’s into the middle 1970’s the U.S government was faced with their losing imperialistic war in Vietnam and a massive Black civil unrest war inside this country; the U.S. government through the CIA used heroin as a ‘narco-strategy’ to address both.
The CIA assisted in the opium/heroin trade that economically enriched their anti-Viet Cong allies; supplied the growing demand for heroin by self-medicating traumatized U.S. troops; and saturated Black communities with heroin to corrupt and criminalize.
Witnessing the ravaging impact of heroin addiction in Black communities RNA member Mutulu Shakur used acupuncture as a complementary medical intervention tool to heal the Black community of pain and suffering specifically heroin addiction.
Shakur became proficient as an acupuncturist working with Lincoln Detox, an addiction treatment program founded in 1970 in the South Bronx by the Black Panther Party; the acupuncture treatment subdued withdrawal symptoms experienced by drug addicts.
Indeed, Shakur was a practitioner and advocate of Black health self-determination ‘self-healing’. Becoming Dr. Shakur he was the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America (BAAANA) and the Harlem Institute of Acupuncture.
Through BAAANA he continued his committed work treating thousands of poor and elderly Black patients addicted to heroin who would otherwise have no access to alternative treatment of this type.
Dr. Shakur understood that racial oppression was pathology producing that facilitated mass sicknesses; that mainstream health care in America was racist, often ineffective, and neglectful; that Black folks must develop their own alternative complementary health infrastructure.
It’s unfortunate that over 50 years ago Shakur initiated and engaged in health intervention to address the heroin plague and we didn’t build and expand on his foundation.
Shakur was imprisoned as a political prisoner over the past 3 decades. During this time our movement failed to develop an alternative complementary health care infrastructure to address the massive chronic diseases we’ve been plagued by.
I close, with a Rest-in-Power Salutation to Dr. Mutulu Shakur a New Afrikan Freedom-Fighter and Internal Reparation Specialist who embodied Point #15 of the New Afrikan Creed:
“I will be patient and uplifting with the deaf, dumb and blind, and i will seek by word and deed to heal the Black family, to bring into the Movement and into the Community mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters left by the wayside.”