If these students are serious, they need to be expelled from the UC system and any professor or administrator who takes them seriously should accompany them.
A black student organization at the University of California at Berkeley is demanding the university rename a building on campus after Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther, convicted cop killer and the first woman named to the FBI’s Most-Wanted Terrorist List.
A jury convicted Shakur of killing a New Jersey State Trooper in 1979. She escaped prison and fled to Cuba. The FBI calls her a domestic terrorist. In 2013, the agency added her to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List, alongside several members of Al Qaeda, airline hijackers and bombers.
But to the Black Student Union at Berkeley, Shakur is an “icon of resistance within oppressed communities (who) represents black resilience in the face of state-sanctioned violence.” They demanded the university rename Barrows Hall, named after former Chancellor David Barrows, “Shakur Hall.” In 2013, Shakur declared her innocence and called her trial in 1979 a legal lynching by an all-white jury. Shakur, formerly known as Joann Chesimard, belonged to the Black Liberation Army at the time of the shooting.
“We want the renaming for someone — Assata Shakur — who we feel like represents us as black students,” said Black Student Union spokesman Cori McGowens. “Black students on campus have a feeling of isolation, marginalization. We’re at a crisis on campus.”
The renaming of Barrows Hall is just one of 10 demands the Black Student Union delivered to Berkeley Chancellor Nick Dirks last month.
They’re also demanding a meeting place solely for black students, $300,371 for two black admissions staff focused on black recruiting, $113,932 for another staffer to handle black retention, two black psychologists who understand the “racially hostile campus,” two black advisers to mentor black athletes and a fully-funded ‘Get into Graduate School’ mentoring program.
Expel these shit-for-brains. Now. Disband all race-based groups, faux studies programs and professors. Now.
It is a scam that is bilking taxpayers, both Californian and federal, of millions a dollars a year.
This unconscionable insanity must be stopped.
Why don’t they just demand their own all black UC Campus? Maybe they could name it after John Howard Ferguson, whose outlook on race relations is more contemporary than that of the white-african-american Homer Plessy.
Double whammy –the school chant could be “Hands Up! don’t Shoot!” That would be killer at basketball games.
What country is this again?
let them have everything they want
california lol
It certainly ain’t The United States Of America, Cranky. It dead.
You know in the past if you wanted things to be drastically different in an institution, you started you’re own institution.
These morons do not have the skills/talent for that and just demand you change your institution to please them. Parasites.
Greetings:
Recently, I’ve read two interesting books about Europe in the first half of the 20th Century. One was Eric Larsen’s “In the Garden of Beasts” and the other was “The Orientalist” by Tom Reiss.
The former followed the USofA’s Ambassador’s life in Hitler’s Germany immediately before the WW II began. The latter was about a Jewish writer of several different “aka-s” whose life was affected by both the Russian and Nazi Revolutions and who became a Muslim.
So, incidents like the aforementioned lead what’s left of my intellect to wonder about whether this is something akin to the Stormtrooper birthing process wherein sufficiently leftists groups are given greater and greater rein to run roughshod over, under, and through our culture in the guise of some kind of “human rights” or “social justice” costume or is it the somewhat modified application of the Koranic teaching that the “People of the Book” can be tolerated provided that they “feel themselves subdued”.
Greetings:
And if I may add just one quick totally off-track recovering printer comment about “The Orientalist”. It is the most beautifully typeset book I have read in ages. It was set in Garamond and Granjon typefaces, had actual notes in the text and source citations in the rear, and even had a colophon.
In this benighted age of the MAC, somewhere out there, there’s a book designer and typesetter that know what they’re doing.
“We feel so isolated and marginalized that we think we have the juice to demand that you rename a fucking building after our favorite murderer.”
They should get tossed out for being too stupid for higher education.
Ah, like the gay mafia.
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These are Klansmen.
Hoodies and all.