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UC Berkeley students demand building be named after convicted cop killer
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:27 pm
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:27 pm
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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.
They're also demanding a meeting place solely for black students, $300,371 for two black admissions staff focused on black recruiting, $113,932 for another staffer to handle black retention, two black psychologists who understand the "racially hostile campus," two black advisers to mentor black athletes and a fully-funded 'Get into Graduate School' mentoring program.
sorry if Germans, I used the search tool
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Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:28 pm to cwil177
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The renaming of Barrows Hall is just one of 10 demands the Black Student Union delivered to Berkeley Chancellor Nick Dirks last month.
They're also demanding a meeting place solely for black students, $300,371 for two black admissions staff focused on black recruiting, $113,932 for another staffer to handle black retention, two black psychologists who understand the "racially hostile campus," two black advisers to mentor black athletes and a fully-funded 'Get into Graduate School' mentoring program.
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:30 pm to Salmon
I like how the BSU claims that professors at the country's most batshit liberal campus use the "n word."
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:30 pm to cwil177
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"Black students on campus have a feeling of isolation, marginalization. We're at a crisis on campus."
At UC f-ing BERKELY?!
The largest bastion of ultra liberal guilt in the world?
WOW
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:31 pm to cwil177
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A black student organization
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demanding a meeting place solely for black students, $300,371 for two black admissions staff focused on black recruiting
how is this not racist again?
replace black with white...is it racist now?
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:31 pm to cwil177
Meh....I'm sure there's racial tension that exists, but renaming the hall to Shakur Hall or whatever won't change anything....Cori McGowens should take a trip down south. She'll come back to Berkeley and remember that it's racial paradise
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:31 pm to upgrayedd
School is like a real life PCU. The shite that goes down in Berkeley and Oakland can't be comprehended by reasonable people
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:32 pm to Pettifogger
Legit question.
If these kids can't stand things at UC Berkeley, how the frick are they going to function in the real world?
If these kids can't stand things at UC Berkeley, how the frick are they going to function in the real world?
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:32 pm to cwil177
Without even clicking on the link, let me guess it's source is either A. FoxNews or B. DrudgeReport.
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:32 pm to Salmon
They "demand"?
Well, now, they must be accommodated! "Let em have it."
Well, now, they must be accommodated! "Let em have it."
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:33 pm to jbgleason
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If these kids can't stand things at UC Berkeley, how the frick are they going to function in the real world?
To them, there is no real world. They will likely get jobs that will let them do this shite professionally.
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:34 pm to Topwater Trout
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how is this not racist again?
replace black with white...is it racist now?
You are obtuse. You have no idea what it means to be a minority. Support systems can help.....maybe not renaming buildings, but it can be hard feeling different from practically everyone around you. But..you will never know, because you're too afraid to get out of your comfort zone.
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:34 pm to cwil177
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:36 pm to WaltTeevens
On the contrary...if I went to Berkley I can assure you I would be a whole hell of a lot more out of place than these folks perceive they are
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:37 pm to WaltTeevens
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You are obtuse. You have no idea what it means to be a minority. Support systems can help.....maybe not renaming buildings, but it can be hard feeling different from practically everyone around you. But..you will never know, because you're too afraid to get out of your comfort zone.
Yeah man, there are no black people here in SELA.
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:37 pm to upgrayedd
Since I went to grad school at Berkley, I can tell you almost for a fact they will get at least some of that shite. That is the scummiest bunch of a-hole student bodies I have ever been around. Most of the kids there aren't half as smart as they have been lead to believe all their lives.
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:38 pm to WaltTeevens
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You have no idea what it means to be a minority
It's the same shite that comes out over and over. "You don't know what it's like.. you have no idea.. you don't know be cause you 're not a minority" etc.
GTFO
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:38 pm to East Coast Band
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Without even clicking on the link, let me guess it's source is either A. FoxNews or B. DrudgeReport.
There are times when Fox News is insane, this isn't one of them. I think it's a noteworthy story no other outlet would touch. That said, I'm sure it'll be "JUST IN BREAKING NEWS" from Megyn Kelly for then next 7 days.
Posted on 3/20/15 at 2:38 pm to cwil177
Oh Cal... You friggin' oddball of the Pac-12.
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