New York City's Lincoln Center honored activist who said she admired Usama bin Laden

She endured Japanese American internment during World War II and later helped convince the government to apologize and repay the victims, she condemned war and befriended Malcom X – and she said she “admired” Usama bin Laden after 9/11.

The California native spent most of her adult life in the Big Apple. But even though she adopted New York as her home, in a 2003 interview with The Objector magazine, she praised the man responsible for a horrific attack that killed 2,606 of her unsuspecting neighbors on a sunny Tuesday morning. "I’m glad that you are curious why I consider Usama bin Laden as one of the people that I admire," she told the interviewer. "To me, he is in the category of Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba, Fidel Castro, all leaders that I admire. They had much in common. Besides being strong leaders who brought consciousness to their people, they all had severe dislike for the U.S. government and those who held power in the U.S."