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:
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.”
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.”
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.
Featured image via Twitter/X video.
CLICK HERE FOR FULL VERSION OF THIS STORY