Posted on 01/25/2018 4:45:39 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Former Communist Party USA member and prominent political activist Angela Davis appeared at Florida State University Tuesday to deliver a speech trashing the Trump administration.
Davis, speaking to a packed crowd that erupted into applause when she entered the auditorium, kicked off the start of the schools weeklong celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., using the opportunity to express the disdain she believes King would have had for President Trump.
I bet Dr. King would be turning in his grave to know that Donald Trump is the President of the United States. Who wouldve thought that 30 years after his death, we would be dishonoring him by having a white supremacist in the peoples house, she said during the lecture.
At another point in her lecture, Davis took a shot at Trump for golfing on MLK Day, saying that instead of answering the calls of service, he played golf.
According to the university, the purpose of the weeks celebrations is to bring the FSU Tallahassee communities together to reflect on the past and challenge one another to be engaged in creating social justice and advocating for the civil rights of all.
Footage of attendees outside the event waiting to enter shows hundreds, if not thousands, of students waiting to listen to Davis, some of whom spoke with Campus Reform to express appreciation for her and her communist past.
One student, however, claimed that he was in support of Davis as a civil rights activist, not as a communist, but didnt object to her history with the Communist Party USA, saying everybody has the right to their own opinion.
The way that Marx wrote it is different than the way its been implemented, so I like the way Marx wrote it, not the way its been implemented, another student submitted as a justification for communisms questionable record, adding that I hate it when questioned on her views of capitalism.
Notably, in response to the lecture, a group of Republican students protested Davis talk outside the hall in an effort to show their peers why communism is an unacceptable ideology that will not be tolerated.
Rather than attempting to disrupt the event, however, the students arranged for their protest to end at the same time Davis was scheduled to begin speaking.
I thought she was wanted by the FBI.
The Left has cultivated the young skulls full of mush for decades. A majority come out of college with extreme Leftist views. They only start returning to sanity when/IF they start working and have to fend for themselves.
“I thought she was wanted by the FBI.”
It would appear that some in this FBI would rather hire her.
The above makes your point. On the other hand, I'm actually seeing a significant number of college students leaving school after several semesters, unhappy. These are very bright kids who got into competitive schools after working very hard in high school, and when they get on campus they feel that its a sterile environment, and not what they thought they were working to become part of.
“I'm not learning anything. This has nothing to do with what I want o accomplish in life.”
I think the whole concept of what constitutes higher education is going to have to be rethought and restructured. It's too expensive, has become restrictive of thought rather than encouraging thought, and I think online learning and work-study programs would serve a lot of young people much better.
And how appropriate she’s speaking at FSU their star QB is following in his footsteps.
Then why did Kings family meet with Trump and do a photo op??? You libs have dishonored Kings message by choosing the ideas of the racist Malcom X and superimposing them onto MLKs.
Which QB? The one who called the police because he preggo girlfriend went nuts and started trashing his apartment?
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I wonder if she lives like a communist? Or does she just THINK communism will work...as long as those people will just give in to that failed oppressive clunky system of government?
MLK was anti-communist too
So until this student came along and recognized the inconsistencies between Marx's intentions and the implementations performed by Marxists in practice, no one, not Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Che, Chavez, Allende, Maduro, or many others, understood what Marx wrote.
The naivete of youth has a certain charm. Just remember never to take them seriously.
UF has no room to talk in this area, they’ve hosted their share of Commies as well.
Former communist party leader because the Demoncratic party is now the American communist party as they stole the community’s party agenda and made it their own. As stated by the American communist party.
For example, "I'd horsewhip you, if I had a horse."
Always remember, Angela Davis supplied the guns used in the Marin County Courthouse breakout in which the Judge was murdered. I would post photos but Photobucket has messed up my account. Just a link.
The FBI had a great case against her and the screwed it up so bad she walked.
She was bailed out of jail by a communist California Dairy farmer . LIFE Magazine Mar 10 1972, page 72.
instead of answering the calls of service, he played golf.
So did Barry — times two!
She’s also a terrorist: Marin County Courthouse Incident, 1970.
MLK worked with and promoted the Chinese communists.
He did everything he could to help the North Vietnamesee communists.
James McClain holds a sawed-off shotgun at the throat of Judge Harold J. Haley and aims a pistol at law enforcement officers. In the background are other hostages taken by the convicts in their attempt to escape. Road flares, which were used to simulate sticks of Dynamite, was held at the Judges throat before being replaced by a sawed-off shotgun which was taped around his neck.
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In 1970, fired UCLA professor Angela Davis considered a prison inmate named George Jackson to be her lifetime husband, though they were never legally married. George Jackson was a Black Panther and in a subset of the Black Panthers called the Soledad Brothers. A plan was hatched to get Jackson out of prison by kidnapping persons during the trial of another Black Panther named James McClain. Those to be held hostage including the judge, deputy district attorney, and jurors would be traded for Jacksons freedom. McClain was being tried in the Marin County Hall of Justice. Judge Haley was presiding over the trial of McClain who was accused of stabbing a prison guard while serving a sentence for burglary.
The person chosen to effectuate the kidnapping was George Jacksons 17 year old younger brother Jonathan P. Jackson. In the week preceding the kidnapping, Angela Davis and Jonathan Jackson spent much time together, visiting George, buying things, and cashing checks. In the days before the kidnapping, Davis and Jonathan Jackson drove to Mexico, Santa Cruz, Oakland, San Jose, San Francisco, and San Rafael. Two days before the kidnapping, Davis and Jonathan Jackson bought a shotgun from a pawn shop in San Francisco. After Davis paid for the shotgun, the barrel of the shotgun was sawed off so as to be concealable.
On the day before the kidnapping, Davis and Jonathan Jackson were in a rented yellow utility van at the Marin Courthouse. Jonathan went into the courtroom where James McClain was on trial. Jonathan was wearing a long buttoned-up raincoat, even though it was a hot August day with no rain. The van had troubles running, so Jonathan and Davis drove to a gas station down the street from the courthouse to get the van repaired.
On August 7, 1970, a heavily armed Jonathan Jackson returned to the courthouse in the yellow van. He entered the courtroom again wearing the long raincoat. Jonathan Jackson brought three guns registered to Angela Davisinto the Hall of Justice.
Jackson sat among the spectators for a few minutes before opening his satchel, drawing a pistol and throwing it to Black Panther defendant McClain. Jackson then produced a carbine from his raincoat as McClain held the pistol against Judge Haleys head. Jackson was reported as saying Freeze. Just freeze. He then told court officials, attorneys and jurors to lie on the floor while another San Quentin inmate, Ruchell Magee, who was to have witnessed at McClains trial, went to free three other testifying prisoners from their holding cell. A couple with a baby was also ordered into Judge Haleys chambers.
After being freed by Magee, a fourth man, Black Panther William A. Christmas, joined the other three kidnappers. Haley was forced at gunpoint to call the sheriff Louis P. Montarnos, in the hopes of convincing the police to refrain from intervening. Road flares, which were used to simulate sticks of dynamite, were held against Judge Haleys neck before being replaced with a sawed-off shotgun which was fastened under his chin with adhesive tape. The kidnappers, after some debate, then secured four other hostages whom they bound with piano wire: Deputy District Attorney Gary Thomas and jurors Maria Elena Graham, Doris Whitmer, and Joyce Rodoni.
The four kidnappers and five hostages then moved into the corridor of the courthouse, which at this point had become crowded with responding police who had been summoned by a bailiff. No action was taken against them at this point.
Around this time, Jim Kean, a photographer for the San Rafael Independent Journal, arrived at the building after he had heard news of the incident from police radio in his car. He stepped off an elevator directly adjacent to the hostages and kidnappers, and was reportedly told by one of them You take all the pictures you want. We are the revolutionaries. Kean and his colleague Roger Bockrath took a series of photographs of the group, apparently after some brief discussion as to whether the two journalists should be added to the ranks of the hostages.
The group then entered the elevator, informing the police that [they wanted] the Soledad brothers freed by 12:30 today. When the hostages were forced out onto the sidewalk in front of the Hall of Justice, Judge Haley asked where they were being taken. He was told they were being taken to the airport where they would get a plane.
The kidnappers then forced the hostages into a rented Ford panel truck which they began to drive towards an exit leading to the U.S. 101 freeway. The police had set up a road block outside of the civic center in anticipation of the group leaving. As Jonathan Jackson drove the hostages and three convicts away from the courthouse, front passenger McClain shot at the police stationed in the parking lot. The police shot back. Inside the van, Black Panther Ruchell Magee shot Haley in the head. Hostage Deputy District Attorney Gary Thomas grabbed a gun from Jonathan Jackson and began shooting all the kidnappers. A shooting melee ensued. Three Black Panthers were killed in the melee. The only abductor to survive was Ruchell Magee. Prosecutor Thomas was paralyzed for life. Juror Graham suffered a bullet wound to her arm.
Angela Davis was charged as an accomplice to conspiracy, kidnapping, and homicide. In 1972, she was tried and found not guilty on all counts.
Ruchell Magee pled guilty to the charge of aggravated kidnapping for his part in the assault. In return for his plea, the Attorney General asked the Court to dismiss the charge of murder (Magee being the shooter of Judge Haley). Magee later attempted unsuccessfully to withdraw his plea, and was sentenced in 1975 to life in prison.
In 1971, three days before he was to go on trial for the Mills murder, George Jackson was fatally shot in the prison yard of San Quentin during a riotous escape attempt. Officials claim that Jackson had smuggled a 9mm pistol into the prison and he and nearly two dozen other prisoners were attempting to escape. During the conflict, three corrections officers and two other inmates were killed. Six of the inmates (known as the San Quentin Six) were later tried for their participation.
Susie Edwards, Perry and Sadie Miller and O. C. and Addie Nolen, the parents of Cleveland Edwards, Alvin Miller and W. L. Nolen, respectively, eventually filed a $1.2 million dollar damage suit against Opie G. Miller for the deaths of their children.
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