Maxine Waters, Stacey Abrams among political stars in demand for graduation speeches

The Hill ^ | May 9, 2019 | Aris Folley

[2ndDivisionVet]

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), former Georgia gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams (D) and several presidential candidates are among the big names in politics addressing students at graduations this year.

Along with traditionally in-demand speakers like President Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, this year's crop of commencement speakers reflect a country inching closer to the highly anticipated 2020 presidential race.

A number of universities have already announced Democratic presidential candidates as commencement speakers in recent months, picking from a field that has now grown to more than 20.

Two Democratic presidential hopefuls — New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand — have secured commencement opportunities at colleges located in key primary states.

Former Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke (Texas), who surged to popularity last year in a nail-biter Senate race against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz in Texas, also spoke at the Paul Quinn College, the oldest historically black college in Texas, on May 4.

Below is a list of notable political figures who will be delivering commencement addresses in the coming weeks.

[Ann Archy]

I guess they like UGLY!!!

[DarthVader]

Stars?

[albie]

Wow. I turn them off my TV at the sheer site of them. I certainly wouldn’t pay to hear what comes out of their pie holes.

[teeman8r]

What is more inspiring than hearing from an idiot who still made it good in America.

[TexasM1A]

This shows just how far education in this country has fallen if these two blithering racist idiots are in demand.

[ETL]

The 1992 Rodney King riots...

"During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP [The Revolutionary Communist Party] -- which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled 'It's Right To Rebel' -- a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.

Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as 'the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States.'"

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197

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"NEVER FORGET that Maxine Waters embraced Damien Williams, the infamous thug who hurled a chunk of concrete at truck driver Reginald Denny and performed a victory dance over this innocent man’s battered body. Maxine Waters even visited Damien Williams’ mother to offer her support.

Williams was sent to prison on a single felony charge of mayhem, but when his accomplices got off, Waters joined in the celebration. Damien Williams was released a few years later and went on to [commit] murder... Also, no surprise, he was a member of the Crips."

http://www.independentsentinel.com/never-forget-maxine-waters-embraced-thug-hurled-concrete-reginald-denny/

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Maxine Waters on the Los Angeles riots of 1992 (Rodney King riots):

"In defense of the people that looted stores and damaged property, [Maxine] Waters said 'If you call it a riot it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.'[5]

She also said it was 'a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice' and 'The anger in my district is righteous. I'm just as angry as they are'. "

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Waters#Los_Angeles_riots_of_1992

[bray]

Academia is the last bastion of communism.

[ETL]

Check out what it says on the idiot's shirt...

"Huey" was one of the founders of the cop-killing, revolutionary communist, Black Panthers.

As for "Angela" (Angela Davis), check out her bio below.

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Re: Stokely Carmichael

"The death of Che Guevara places a responsibility on all revolutionaries of the World to redouble their decision to fight on to the final defeat of Imperialism.

That is why in essence Che Guevara is not dead, his ideas are with us. "

--Stokely Carmichael

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From Screen to Scorn: For Jussie Smollett, a Life of Arts and Activism Is Upended [NY Slimes]

New York Times ^ | Feb 23, 2019 | Jack Healy, Michael Cooper and Serge F. Kovaleski

CHICAGO — Ever since he was a child actor growing up in a show-business family, Jussie Smollett’s life blended activism with the make-believe worlds of television and movies. ..."

He spoke of his mother’s closeness with the Black Panthers and prominent civil-rights leaders, and how she had encouraged Mr. Smollett and his brothers and sisters to create art and live out their beliefs. ..."

For Mr. Smollett, arts and activism were intertwined throughout his childhood.

His parents met while campaigning for civil rights in the Bay Area of California, and his mother had worked with the founders of the Black Panthers and prominent civil-rights leaders, according to a New York Times interview with Mr. Smollett in 2016.

Between child-acting gigs and press junkets that the six siblings did for their 1994 ABC sitcom, their mother, Janet Smollett, made sure the children played sports and read about figures like Malcolm X and Langston Hughes, she told The Los Angeles Times in 1994. (His family did not respond to phone or email messages.)

“I know their mother, Janet, has always taught them to stand up for themselves, and for what they believe,” Mr. Harris said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...

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[Feb 2nd] Smollett Siblings & Their Ex Black Panther Mom Finally Speak On Jussie’s Racist Attack

iloveoldschoolmusic.com ^ | Feb 2, 2019

The past three days have been deeply trying for Empire actor, Jussie Smollett, to say the least.

After being brutally attacked by racists early Tuesday (January 29, 2019) morning, an ongoing investigation has resulted in several discoveries, but still no suspects apprehended.

Now, Jussie’s five siblings and Moms have decided to address the violent attack, as well as what they plan on doing about it going forward.

FYI: Their Mom was an activist and a member of The Black Panther Party back in the day.

So neither she, nor her kids, will simply take this violent racist/homophobic attack against her baby lying down.

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From the New York Times...

"Jussie and Jurnee still count their mother, Janet Smollett, as their only acting coach. An African-American from New Orleans, Ms. Smollett met their father, Joel Smollett Sr., a Russian-Polish Jew, in the Bay Area, where they campaigned for civil rights.

“My mom was in the movement with Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, and one of her first mentors was Julian Bond,” Mr. Smollett said of the Black Panther founders and the civil rights leader.

“To this day, Angela Davis is one of her dearest friends. We’ve spent Mother’s Day with Angela.”..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/arts/television/the-smollett-family-business-acting-and-activism.html

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“My mom was in the movement with Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, and one of her first mentors was Julian Bond,” Mr. Smollett said of the Black Panther founders and the civil rights leader.

“To this day, Angela Davis is one of her dearest friends.

We’ve spent Mother’s Day with Angela.”..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/arts/television/the-smollett-family-business-acting-and-activism.html

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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
PROFILE: ANGELA DAVIS

* Communist professor at the University of California’s Santa Cruz campus
* Recipient of the Lenin “Peace Prize” from the police state of East Germany in 1979
* Provided an arsenal of weapons to Black Panthers who used them to kill a Marin Country judge in a failed attempt to free Davis' imprisoned lover, Black Panther murderer George Jackson
* Icon of the campus Left and frequent guest speaker at anti-war rallies
* Leader of a movement to free all criminals who are minorities claiming that they are political prisoners of the racist United States
* “The only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class.”

Angela Yvonne Davis is a tenured professor in the “History of Consciousness” program at the University of California - Santa Cruz.

A former member of the Black Panther Party, she is currently a “University Professor,” one of only seven in the entire California University system, which entitles her to a six-figure salary and a research assistant.

This income is supplemented by speaking fees ranging from $10,000 to $20,000 per appearance on college campuses, where she is an icon of radical faculty, administrators, and students.

Davis has also taught at UCLA and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1303

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"Meet Their Moms- Mrs. Janet Smollett Is The TRUTH!"

Janet Smollett, with one of Jussie's 2 brothers [my caption]

http://admin.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/slideshow/smollett-siblings-ex-black-panther-mom-finally-speak-jussies-racist-attack/8/

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"My mom was in the movement with Bobby Seale and Huey Newton,

and one of her first mentors was Julian Bond,” Mr. Smollett said of the Black Panther founders and the civil rights leader.

“To this day, Angela Davis is one of her dearest friends.

We’ve spent Mother’s Day with Angela.”..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/arts/television/the-smollett-family-business-acting-and-activism.html

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"In 1970 Davis was implicated by more than 20 witnesses in a plot to free her imprisoned lover, fellow Black Panther George Jackson, by hijacking a Marin County, California courtroom and taking hostage the judge, the prosecuting assistant district attorney, and two jurors.

In an ensuing gun battle outside the court building, Judge Harold Haley’s head was blown off by a sawed-off shotgun owned by Ms. Davis.

To avoid arrest for her alleged complicity in the plot, Ms. Davis fled California, using aliases and changing her appearance to avoid detection.

Two months later, Davis was arrested by the FBI in New York City."

https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/angela-davis/

[exDemMom]

I would complain to the dean of the school about ruining the commencement ceremony by having one of those America hating socialists speak. Graduation is supposed to be a happy time, not a leftist political rally.

[ETL]

Academia is the last bastion of communism.

Communists still infect nearly every portion of our society, from the entertainment industry and media to high-ranking political positions in the Dem Party. In fact, one of them was twice-elected president of the U.S.(2008-2016).

[grateful]

Maxine Waters spoke at my sister’s graduation decades ago. It was torture.

[VietVet876]

It takes many flushes to get rid of that movement.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Good God how low are colleges today going?

[FreedomPoster]

You do good work.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Smollet is a piece of rat filth and I predicted he would walk and this would all be brushed under the rug ala Tawana Brawley and I was 100% right. Once again Republicans made pretend they were going to do something, this time about scum like Kim Foxx, and of course it’s quietly brushed to the side and forgotten just like the IRS crap and Benghazi.

[from occupied ga]

They like ugly stupid and delusional

[King Moonracer]

Racist bitches. You can see their hatred in their eyes.

[Lockbox]

We used to have real leaders who would inspire the graduates to go on to achieve. Now the universities want losers who blame everyone else. What message are the universities sending?

[xrmusn]

I agree with the posters that in a respect (at least I would hope so) that the young grads look at some of these fools and say

‘HEY, maybe it isn’t so bad out there, as they have been telling me these past 21+ years, if THESE FOOLS AND IDIOTS can ‘make’ it, what is to stop me?”