Isn’t it interesting that someone like Davis is able to speak on a college campus without being protested or shouted down?
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports:
Civil rights activist Angela Davis: Movements matterMovements make a difference, civil rights activist Angela Davis told a capacity crowd Wednesday evening at Marquette University’s Al McGuire Center.“Even if they do not necessarily achieve the goals that they posit, they make a positive difference in the world,” she said.Davis, a nationally known civil rights activist and scholar, spoke as part of the Marquette Forum, a yearlong series of discussions examining racism and inequality.Marquette’s invitation to speak drew criticism from the right on Twitter.And the irony of being asked to speak at Marquette, which removed a mural of another black activist, Assata Shakur, in 2015, was not lost on Davis. Davis was once labeled a terrorist by President Richard Nixon. After massive demonstrations, she was acquitted of criminal charges related to a prison break in 1972.Shakur, meanwhile, was convicted of several felonies in 1977 after a police officer was fatally shot in New Jersey. She escaped from prison and gained political asylum in Cuba. Davis, who called Shakur a “friend and comrade,” asserted that the evidence against Shakur, like the evidence in her own case, lacked credibility.
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