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 ...
Wait until Obama pardons him on his last day in office.
I really don’t care as long as this murderer rots in prison for the rest of his life. Am curious about the curriculum at Goddard College though...
FRY MUMIA
Saw this doing a Google search for Goddard College.
“Goddard College is a progressive liberal arts college located in rural Vermont.”
That is all we need to know.
What’s the matter, Charlie Manson busy that day?
They love monstrous convicted murderers, but hate human babies.
Democrats: the racist, wastrel, misanthropic Party of Death.
Why do you photoshop the eyes out? Makes it kinda weird.
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Its animated,,,,one frame me displaying the eyes open,,,the next frame with the eyes closed....making him appear to be blinking
occasionally a browser will hiccup and not display both frames in the animation which may be what happened when you saw that post,
No, I’m surfing from a black and white kindle which doesn’t pick up the animation.
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Nah,it’s one of those touchy-feely schools.
Like another planet.
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“Progressive” liberals love to use that word don’t they even though what they do is the complete opposite.
It’s a recorded broadcast and 20 graduating students will be listening. If I were a business, I would never hire a graduate from this school. Ever. Seems radical thinking is the touchstone of their curriculum/values. Killer Mumia is a graduate of said ‘institution.’ Despicable.
Okay that would explain the issue. Thank you.
Somehow that doesn't surprise me.
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