Posted on 03/19/2015 5:48:55 PM PDT by jazusamo
Video at link.
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.
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Everyone now see why communista went after the American blacks? Same with the muslims.
At least they were honest enough to choose a guy named Asshat.
Hey maybe if they send her an invitation for the re-dedication............
These black children of privilege are just wanting to get down with the homies in the hood, don’t ya know!
Idiot college kids on thier parents teet never worked a day, clothes food and shelter were provided by thier parents who worked and slaved in the greatest most prosporous country in the world and educated(propagandized) by overpaid liberal commie socialist perverts
A gal named asshat. Say, isn’t she sixpac shakur’s cousin or aunt or something. (I think we’ve been through this before.)
Yep, their education is secondary making their obscene statements.
So, they are demanding to be represented by a convicted cop killer. How thoughtful of these young scholars.
Like hell they do. They're the most coddled black people in America.
Which makes them the most coddled people in America, period.
Let’s compromise and call it the Baraq Hussein Obama Hall of Freeloading.
Black Student Union spokesman Cori McGowens: “Black students on campus have a feeling of isolation, marginalization. We’re at a crisis on campus.”
Sure. Isolation from who? White people?
What better way to overcome marginalization from white people than to accuse whites of systemic racism in one breath and in the next lionize a stone cold cop killer for no better reason than the fact that she is black. This plan is SURE to work! LOL!
Expel all of ‘em.
Good to know.
I’ll be sure to mention it next time I get a phone call from Cal asking for a donation - like every other week.
That’s surely more appropriate.
Much more likely it's difficult to succeed academically because you're not bright enough.
Naturally.
this is the attitude they have. Hate this country and the police, just like 0.
Is jes the white pig’s fault fer getting in da way o dat bullit! See, if’n he’d a jes lef Asshat alone, she could a dun her crime in peace. Da ded pig, well he a rayciss for even tryna stopping her. Pig got what he deserve!
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Berkeley should change the name of the building to Trooper Werner Foerster Building, after the NJ State Trooper she killed!
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