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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“microaggression”? Who is “Micro” and why is he/she “aggressing” anyone?
A handful of extremely mentally ill black students messing up another university though UC Berkeley is still ranked as one of the most Marxist-messed up universities in American history.
They want to honor a cop killer with no connection to California. Ironically they could probably get away with naming a building after Nat Turner (who did not kill any cops but massacred a number of white people including children). Naming a building after Nelson Mandela wouldn't even be controversial. But I think they want to be "in your face" about their demand.
Ass Shaker?
Off topic but:
FRY MUMIA.
They’ll cave and do it. But this is extremely offensive.
BTW, this murderous racist scum is the aunt of the late rapper Tupac Shakur.
I’m glad someone picked up on that, it jumped out at me like a red flag.
Micro aggression? Only these twits could come up with something as ridiculous as that.
FRY MUMIA BUMP!!
The quicker she joins Tupac, the better.
demanding the university rename a building on campus after Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther, convicted cop killer
The building being referred to has already been renamed Darren Wilson
I demand the student group pay me $100,000,000,000,000,000
We all want things.
How offensive this is to students who have had siblings, parents or other relatives murdered. They forgot they are suppose to NOT offend us victims.
Isolation from who?
They are isolated because they isolate themselves by forming these stupid “black” whatever groups. Perhaps if they intermingled with others and act in a civil and respectable manner there would be far less problems.
It was a rhetorical question.
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