Posted on 09/30/2014 9:44:34 AM PDT by Phillyred
Convicted Philadelphia cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal has been selected as the commencement speaker for a Vermont college.
Goddard College announced that the infamous inmate will address its graduates at Sunday's ceremony.
Undergraduate students receiving their degrees selected Abu-Jamal as their commencement speaker, the Plainfield, Vt., school said.
Abu-Jamal was convicted in the 1981 slaying of Officer Daniel Faulkner and sentenced to death. The high-profile and long-running case was in the news for decades as Abu-Jamal fought the death penalty; the sentence was later reduced to life in prison without parole.
Goddard said Abu-Jamal's speech was prerecorded by Prison Radio.
The college says it holds 20 commencement ceremonies each year so students in each degree program can have personalized graduations.
"As a reflection of Goddard’s individualized and transformational educational model, our commencements are intimate affairs where each student serves as her or his own valedictorian, and each class chooses its own speaker," Goddard College Interim President Bob Kenny said in a statement. "Choosing Mumia as their commencement speaker, to me, shows how this newest group of Goddard graduates expresses their freedom to engage and think radically and critically in a world that often sets up barriers to do just that."
Goddard said Abu-Jamal received a bachelor of arts degree from the college in 1996. He completed this coursework there by mail, according to the Burlington Free Press.
Abu-Jamal has given commencement speeches at other colleges. Both his 1999 speech to graduates of Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., and 2000 address for Antioch College's commencement in Yellow Springs, Ohio, sparked outrage and protests from police officers, prosecutors, and Faulkner's family.
The speech is the second time Abu-Jamal has been in the news this month: A lawyer who was nominated to lead the Justice Department's civil rights division withdrew from consideration ...
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
What? What? Is this a joke?
Goddard College, where cold blooded cop killers are celebrated. What a DISGRACE.
Goddard College fits in the ‘not really college’ category ...
Yep and the police unions will continue to support Democrats that love Mumia Abu jamal.
It is beyond me why prison authorities in this state allow him to do a regular radio commentary.
How about this one: University of San Diego where they have a “Hitler youth club” this woman belongs to, seems proud of it and also supports radical Islam and freely admits she hates Jews.
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“The college says it holds 20 commencement ceremonies each year so students in each degree program can have personalized graduations.
“As a reflection of Goddard’s individualized and transformational educational model, our commencements are intimate affairs where each student serves as her or his own valedictorian, and each class chooses its own speaker,”
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Right, This “commencement” is a joke.
It’s beyond me why he’s even alive. The evidence against this subhuman piece of rat filth was beyond overwhelming, I believe it was 5 witnesses who saw him shoot the cop plus the fact that he never denied shooting him.
But hey, at least it costs too much money.
Honestly, I think HR departments need to wise up and realize that nowadays if you're dumb enough to go to college and spend decades in hock for the privilege of coming out with a degree in stupidity, you're too stupid to be hired.
“Is this a joke?”
Yes, the country’s colleges are a joke. A bad, dirty joke. Expensive to boot.
Any parent who would pay for their kid to go to Goddard undoubtedly supports this kind of stuff.
The real problem with colleges these days is taxpayer funding.
If they were forced to support themselves on private tuition money, they wouldn’t have the excess to spend on crap like ‘The African slave descendent experience in racist America’. Instead the money would go to pay real professors to teach real subjects and push the boundaries of real science and technology.
I know right, says a lot about the parents if this is acceptable to them.
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