Socialist Texas Prof Calls for University of Houston to be Renamed ‘George Floyd University’
“All of a sudden you got a glimpse of what it means when we control the streets because the cops were backing off. They were completely outnumbered.”
In case you haven’t heard, the Socialism 2025 conference happened this weekend. Unsurprisingly, a number of attendees were from the higher education community.
One professor suggested that the University of Houston should be renamed for George Floyd, with free tuition, naturally.
FOX News reports:
Socialist Texas professor calls for University of Houston to be renamed ‘George Floyd University’
University of Houston professor David McNally proposed renaming his school to “George Floyd University” and abolishing tuition and grades at the Socialism 2025 conference Saturday.
While wearing a keffiyeh, McNally spoke on a panel in Chicago about what fighting the state would look like in the “context of growing an insurgent mass movement.” Among McNally’s ideas for the “de-stateification” of the University of Houston, which is a public university, included honoring Floyd after his highly publicized death in May 2020.
“We would open the university up in such a way that it becomes a resource of the broader community,” McNally said. “And I can tell you with great confidence that in the Third Ward of Houston, that means that we will be renamed the George Floyd University.”
He pointed out that Floyd grew up in the Third Ward and went to school close to the campus before moving to Minneapolis.
McNally also recounted his experience of watching the George Floyd Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020, where he saw police officers being overwhelmed by protesters.
“All of a sudden you got a glimpse of what it means when we control the streets because the cops were backing off. They were completely outnumbered,” McNally recalled. “You begin to sense what happens when the balance of social forces, even in one small situation, shifts and how the horizons of possibility change. For that period of time, that part of downtown Houston was not in their hands anymore. It was in our hands. It was in insurgent hands.”
Here’s the video of McNally’s comments:
“University of Houston Would Become George Floyd University”
At Socialism 2025, University of Houston professor David McNally laid out a radical vision for what happens when an “insurgent social movement” seizes control of a university. His words weren’t abstract.
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— Stu (@thestustustudio) July 6, 2025
If this speaker looks familiar, it’s because he was fired by Drexel University in 2016 for saying “All I want for Christmas is white genocide.”
At Socialism 2025, @UPenn lecturer Geo Maher says the U.S. won’t be a democracy until the “neo-Confederates sticking their heads out of their snake holes” are “decapitated.”
Let’s be clear: in this space, neo-Confederate means anyone to the right of Bernie. pic.twitter.com/vcAuIG4WOq
— Stu (@thestustustudio) July 6, 2025
If you watch this to the end, this Princeton professor describes her school as “the colonizing racial capitalist white supremacist institution that pays my salary.”
Princeton Professor: “Capitalism sucks. Individualism is killing us.”
Lorgia García Peña laid out her five “premises” for building community—what she calls rebellion in community—at the Socialism 2025 conference, and it reads like a manifesto against Western liberal democracy… pic.twitter.com/2cHzn2QFB7
— Stu (@thestustustudio) July 5, 2025
If people in higher education want to know why power structures and funding to colleges and universities are under a microscope right now, this is exactly why. People do not want their tax dollars funding this anymore.
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Because a college should be named after an un-educated drug addict who never did anything useful with his life?
““All of a sudden you got a glimpse of what it means when we control the streets”
Yeah, thugs start rioting and burning shit down.
Absolutely a college should be named after an “un-educated drug addict” sarc
fwiw – college has become a haven for idiocy and socilism, so naming the college after what college professors aspire to be would be appropriate.
This is how you know they’re communist: they want to name a college after someone who didn’t even do anything for the revolution, except be a dead body they can lie about and exploit into a spark for rebellion.
This. Even if you believe what they say about Floyd, the best he is is a victim. He did nothing worth honoring.
The reality is he was trash.
You keffiyeh-flaunting dipwit – take your stupid, thieving idea and do with it what George Floyd did with his fentanyl: shove it up your ***.
A professor of history who never learned from it, It just goes to show that those who really can’t do, teach is true!
When did Departments of Sociology become the Departments of Socialism on college campuses? Here ‘s an idea, let’s defund the socialists.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
Well, they don’t appear to have any abilities, and they need a smackdown. Let’s do this!
You forgot, “and die of it.”
why not!
all their heros are criminals
They are 2/3 of the way there
tuition is free for the blmplo
and no grades has been in effect for decades aka social promotions
once again his pov will be laughed off so we dont have to deal with the realities as I just stated
end allll welfare and have the per capita criminal champs GIVE SOCIETY REPARATIONS
That seems like a good idea to me. It will allow people to know what they are getting when they consider hiring graduates of GFU.
they already know,,,a lawsuit for racism in the making
What courses does this university offer? Pharmacology?
Counterfeiting Studies
Back in 1971, as the new sports stadium in Philadelphia was being completed there was talk of selling the name of the stadium (it eventually became Veterans Stadium because of a prior promise).
Why not put the university name up for auction.
The history of naming stadiums after corporations is littered with companies that failed shortly after (Enron, 3com, etc) as marketing departments that think this is a good idea have forgotten exactly what they are trying to sell.
Now, naming after people, usually dead people, seems to work better.
A few possible names: Charles Manson, George Floyd, Angela Davis, Nathan Bedford Forrest, John Bell Hood, Stokely Carmichael, Ezell A. Blair Jr., Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond
Karl Marx. Groucho Marx. John Lennon, Vladimir Lenin.
So criminal university.
Houston is HUGLY black and U of H is like 80% black
Houston is HUGLY black
28% black
U of H is like 80% black
Wiki:University of Houston has these stats:
You might be confusing the U of H with Texas Southern University, which is nearby, and is a HBU: 86% black.
I attended the U of H for a semester. I taught math for a year at a school where the principal went on to get a doctorate. Last I checked, she is a tenured Professor of Education at Texas Southern. Her specialty is training students to become administrators– principals or assistant principals. Which is ironic considering that the school district did not renew her contract as principal. Those who can’t competently administer schools, train school administrators.
They still control the streets. Connected State Troopers are terrified to patrol the 100 MPH mayhem of minority drivers on the highways. They are MIA in this war zone. So how do they meet their ticket quota? With compliant press coverage, they announce a campaign to combat speeding on rural roads. They now stake out country roads in 99% white, upscale towns and hand out tickets to soccer moms doing 42 in a 35 zone.
Officer Safety(R) you know. A soccer mom won’t cause trouble.
Also shows that – at bottom – the traffic division is just revenue enhancement.
Connecticut -typo
This professor is nothing but a disease feasting off a prosperous free society.
Maybe he has a purpose.
(That’s one of my favorites. It’s also suggested for “Disaffected college students”. Heh.)
I had no idea that George Floyd was a champion of socialism!
Just shows you can learn something every day!
He was a world champion yeller. He was yelling “I can’t breathe,” so loud that he could be heard from two miles away.
Well, we all know what happens to old yellers.
He believed in wealth redistribution from his victim to himself.
All thieves are socialists at heart.
Next they’ll be requesting that his picture be on the 20 dollar bill because he passed so many.
These people are so intellectually boring. I couldn’t make it through the first minute on any of the videos.
Educated idiots.
The whole lot of ‘em.
A card carrying cultist, playing the same one note, out of key tune that is reserved for saints like George Floyd. Michael Brown U in St. Louis has a nice ring, too.
The George Floyd Fentanyl Overdose Memorial University
they think they control the streets….FAFO.
Nope- but I’m all for renaming the morgue to be the “George Floyd Sobriety Center”
I hear he’s celebrating 5 years being sober. Way to go!!!!!
He has five chips now!
what a moron–the cops didn’t back off because they were outnumbered
he’s pretty mouthy when he’s in his safe, secure forum–step out on the street, bud–put your own ass out there on the line and let’s see how long you last
The other piece he’s being obtuse about is that once LEO fails and the streets are, in his words, ‘in the hands of insurgents’ the State stops sending LEO to enforce laws and begins sending Soldiers to kill the insurgents. Not for nothing but .50 Cals and Mark 19s will.successfully defeat an insurgent mob on the street. So will snipers targeting leadership, folks with bull horns, folks with signs and so on b/c once the insurgent mob understands who/what is being targeted suddenly no one wants to be in charge, give directions, use a bullhorn to shout orders.
Do it! But ban federal funding and watch GFU go bankrupt within two years!
Ok. This a hole wants to be a socialist. Let’s treat him like one. His salary as a History professor at the University of Houston is 171419, The average salary in Houston is 61131. Let’s remove 110K of this salary!!! Now he can have an equitable salary with the masses he so loves and wants to be a part of.
Oooh, look! Another credentialed idiot wearing his terrorist flair.
Love the term “terrorist flair”. So true.
Where is a good mass shooter when you need one?
Mass? Surgical, please.
You would think after all the defund the police cites that tried that and failed, he would know it didn’t work. He also wants a free with no grades university whose graduates would have no skills or job offers. What is his explanation of what would happen when two different free people’s got into a war in the streets. Who or what would decide the winner? What if his side lost?
The students wouldn’t even have to attend classes to graduate at his dream university.
“Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?”
I think so Brain. But, will resisting the cruel repression of criminals and terrorists on campus usher in a glorious Utopian university, where the lion and lamb will decide what to have for lunch in the school cafeteria? Narf.
Here, try the jello.
“So, what are we gonna do tomorrow night, Brain?”
“The same thing we do every night, Pinky [TARZAN YELL]”
It seems that the wretched keffiyeh scarf — symbol of evil, genocidal and goose-stepping Arab Islamofascists/Muslim terrorists — has replaced the kinte cloth as the vile Dhimmi-crats’ most prized sartorial accoutrement and fashion accessory.
not to worry
the keffinte will be on the fashion runways soon enough
Dems really dislike American values, culture and people. They are just looking for opportunities to express it.
The University of Houston Professor mentioned, as a thought experiment, “destatefying their “sanctuary campus” and replacing current US law enforcement with a ”Committee of Public Safety.”
Interestingly, there was an outfit with the same name established during the French Revolution. Their job was to act as the executive government to protect the revolution from its enemies during the Reign of Terror. It seems by executive they meant execute, and by no kings, they meant everyone.
Would starry eyed radical revolutionaries say, as a thought experiment, that a true reign of terror has never been tried?
Yes, you’d think a professor of history would understand the meaning of that particular phrase and why it wouldn’t be a good idea.
Except, of course, he’s a Prog, so he thinks it “just wasn’t done right” the first time, and that he is so much smarter and better than those people that he will get it right.
What do you want to bet that the U of H is paying his expenses for the conference?
First I would say to that supposed “teacher”, please leave your bath towel at home in your bathroom. Second explain why idiot George Floyd moved from Texas in the first place. I guess the ease of crime was better in Minneapolis. Floyd was a criminal, drug abusing criminal. No one with any sense of intelligence, honor and integrity would honor him at all.
According to https://openpayrolls.com/david-j-mcnally-147954851
David J Mcnally worked as a Professor for the University of Houston – University Park (UH) and in 2023 had a reported pay of $169,053.03 and an endowed chair stipend of $36,099.99. Not shabby for working 10 hours a week, 30 weeks a year!
Another leftist dope with multiple degrees blurts out stupidity. That’s not news.
All talk and no action. If they truly believed in this crap they’d move to Cuba and enjoy the fruits of their beliefs.
This Mensa midget apparently feels the need to fill Sheila Jackson-Lee’s shoes since her passing. Same part of town.
Lol.
I thought they already renamed Univ of Houston to Cougar High School?
“…Floyd grew up in the Third Ward and went to school close to the campus…”
He also went to jail close to the campus. Good enough!
This has to be a Babylon Bee headline, right? Right??
Thanks for bringing to our attention these academics. This is not a crowd that I come any where near associating with. It was interesting to hear the mixture of academic jargon with street talk – all stupid, meaningless but slyly and intensely narcissistic chatter.
They should be careful, during the riots antifa painted the words “liberals get the bullet too”.
I’ll bet those idiots go to bed assuming they’ll be chosen as the leaders of their pretend university by the grateful “students”.
What a great idea!
Since all the major universities are pushing communism, let’s rename all of them after black crooks/murderers/rapists with long criminal records.
Berkley can be Trayvon Martin U.
Harvard renamed Samuel Little United
Etc.
Texas Southern, Houston’s big HBCU, went through a number of tries to rename it for famous black people, but neither their board nor the Texas Legislature felt compelled to do so. Fentanyl J. Felon is not the person they would want for the city’s largest state-related namesake university. UH’s board, the legislature, and Governor Abbott won’t stand for that!