Thug Meets Girl
Angela Davis wasn’t the first unattached woman to develop an ardent romantic connection with a prison pen pal. But George Jackson was no run-of-the-mill jailbird. If he actually wrote the collected letters in Soledad Brother, he was a talented writer.
But in other ways, Jackson was a very ordinary criminal. An incorrigible thief and streetfighter educated in Chicago Catholic parochial schools, he put his decent, self-sacrificing parents through the wringer until (and well after) he ended up in the California correctional system, graduating from the youth system to adult prisons. He eventually got killed in prison, 
but not before he got his younger brother killed in a bloody showdown with police.The tone of his letters home was condescending and sometimes menacing. He often referred to his parents by their first names. He was apparently incapable of gratitude. His prose style is similar to Black homosexual novelist James Baldwin’s writing, angry and grandiose. He was a narcissist who raged that the world, starting with his parents, refused to recognize and conform to his obvious genius. He was always right, and tolerated no doubters.
He was a good match for Angela Davis, a privileged young Alabama-born Communist who had studied on the East 
Coast and in Europe, and was mentored at Brandeis by Herbert Marcuse. She was an uncompromising supporter of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc police states.
Prison Abolitionism (Or Not)
It’s quite ironic that Davis styles herself a prison abolitionist nowadays. After Soviet tanks rolled across Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” and 80,000 troops lingered to enforce the client regime’s will, Czech dissidents appealed to her to speak out for the political prisoners there. Her answer: “They deserve what they 
get. Let them remain in prison.”
When the claustrophobic Soviet regime refused to allow its Jews to practice their religion at home and refused to let them emigrate abroad to practice it in Israel, Davis was utterly unsympathetic to the refuseniks and prisoners of conscience. “They are all Zionist fascists and opponents of socialism,” she told attorney Alan Dershowitz.
She is, to be blunt, a fake prison abolitionist.
How to Delegate Revolution
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avis is also a fake revolutionary. She has led a life of extraordinary privilege, and has deftly shifted others to the front lines to do her fighting for her.
After Jackson’s 17-year-old brother Jonathan visited him in jail twice in a week, Davis bought a shotgun at a pawn shop for the skinny boy. On the following day, the shotgun reappeared at the Marin County courthouse, sawed off, loaded and taped to trial judge Harold Haley’s throat in a screwball attempt to spring the elder Jackson and other criminals from prison. Women from the jury were bound with piano wire and herded down the corridors as human shields.
After the inevitable police blockade, the shoot-out left four dead, including Jackson’s little brother and Judge Haley, a father of three daughters. Jackson’s comment about the lad he and Davis put in harm’s way: “He was free for a while. I guess that’s more than most of us can expect.” Malignant narcissists, especially the articulate and well-educated variety, can dress up the foulest offense in noble and self-flattering language.
Exploiters and Loafers on Faculty
Deploying young people on self-destructive projects was something of a cottage industry for California academics like Marcuse, who had moved west to the University of California at San Diego, and San Jose State’s Harry Edwards, who rode young Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos to bigger and better appointments. It worked for them, and it worked later for Davis who now draws a six-figure retirement salary as “Distinguished Professor Emerita,” which entitles her to a research assistant, at her disposal. She finished out her active academic career at the University of California at Santa Cruz as a professor in the History of Consciousness department.
What the heck is History of Consciousness? Well, don’t ask the founding chancellor of the Santa Cruz campus. In an oral history interview, he said he was not consulted by the faculty who got Regents’ approval for it. Professor Charles “Page” Smith confessed in an interview with David Horowitz that he helped found the department to prove that PhD programs are a fraud. Although he was personally very prolific, Smith was a critic of the “publish or perish” culture in U.S. universities, and he eventually resigned his tenured position in protest after a friend was denied tenure for lack of scholarly publications.
According to the University of California website, the History of Consciousness program involved “interdisciplinary research and student training in ‘established and emergent disciplines and fields’ in the humanities, arts, sciences, and social sciences based on a diverse array of theoretical approaches.” That sounds utterly meaningless, a vindication of Professor Page.
Black Panther hoodlum Huey Newton obtained a PhD there before a Communist rival gunned him down. Davis told a Book TV interviewer that her role on the faculty was to ask questions and encourage critical thinking rather than to impart knowledge. In other words, she had landed an appointment that allowed her to operate as an ideological heckler and polemicist, free of any burden of scholarly productivity. Her advocacy has been predictably Marxist.
Tolerance in Eye of Beholder
Davis’s mentor Marcuse argued in “Repressive Tolerance,” a 1965 essay, that genuine tolerance cannot permit Right Wing speech, which he characterized as “repressive” speech. Such tolerance, according to Marcuse, is “inauthentic.”
“Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right and toleration of movements from the Left.”
This is the definition of tolerance urged on us today, whether by snowflake activists or tenured Hard Left professors or Deep State tyrants. We should tolerate Sodomites in kindergartens and Boy Scout troops, therefore, and drag queens in children’s library programs, but it is intolerable that a Christian florist or cake decorator should, by conscience, opt out of the gay wedding market.
And while everybody wanted justice against the cretins who bombed the four little girls in their Birmingham Sunday School, the Left rallied behind the murderous Davis, also responsible for four deaths and a maiming, when she was arrested in disguise across the continent from the scene of the slaughter.
Celebrities Swarm to Defend Their Own
John and Yoko Ono pledged their support for Davis. The Rolling Stones wrote an admiring song, “Sweet Black Angel,” about her. James Baldwin said the police who fired from the blockade should be on trial. Committees in support of Angela Davis formed in Black churches and at Stanford University. “We had our ears stuffed with Angela Davis,” Alexander Solzhenitsyn recalled after escaping the USSR. “Little children in school were told to sign petitions in 
defense of Angela Davis.” The CIA estimated in 1971 that five percent of the total Soviet propaganda effort was allocated to Angela Davis.
After her trial, the all-white California jury faced the cameras and explained its acquittal. They said that although Davis purchased the murder weapons, the prosecutor never proved that she induced Jonathan to use the shotgun to commit the crime. One juror raised a clenched-fist salute. Most of the jurors joined Davis off premises at an acquittal celebration afterwards. Even her exoneration was fake.
After her acquittal, Davis reclaimed her passport and flew out of the country to recover at a Soviet resort. A few years 
later, she was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize, after the East German police state nominated her. She was positively mushy in her acceptance speech on soil hallowed by “Vladimir Ilyich Lenin” and his “glorious October Revolution,” as breathless and wide-eyed as Marilyn Monroe.
But sterling left-wing bona fides were no barrier to victimization by predatory race-conscious “revolutionaries” like George Jackson, who referred to whites as snakes and barbarians, and by sly enablers like Davis who usually didn’t.
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ckson pestered his radical white editor, Fay Stender, to smuggle weapons and explosives into the prison during her visits. This was the same woman who recruited French intellectual Jean Genet to write the forward to Jackson’s book. She was also the attorney who set up Jackson’s legal defense fund. But when Stender balked at smuggling deadly contraband, Jackson angrily broke off their relationship.
One of Jackson’s Communist comrades, recently paroled prisoner Edward Glenn Brooks, broke into Stender’s home, tied up her children and lesbian partner, and forced her to state: “I, Fay Stender, admit I betrayed George Jackson and the prison movement when they needed me most.” Then he shot her several times, leaving her paralyzed below the waist, and in constant pain until her suicide about a year later.
Fantasy Evening With a Homicidal Celebrity
So why would the University of Southern Indiana invite someone of Angela Davis’s character to deliver the keynote address at the 2020 Nelson Mandela Social Justice Day next month? You’d have to ask Dr. Sakina Hughes, associate professor of history and chair of the Mandela Social Justice Commemoration Committee.
Maybe she and her committee think Angela Davis would be a good role model for you or your adolescent children. Maybe they just want to rub elbows with a real celebrity. Or maybe they admire murderous Communists with nine lives, who always morph and land on their feet.
Whatever their reasoning, I think it’s clear they don’t have students’ best interests at heart. File this one away for future reference.
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Has USI Gone Political?
It certainly appears that way. Incidentally, for the last few years, USI has selected only known radical, racially and culturally-divisive liberal leftists (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Tia Oso, Cornel West) to speak at the Nelson Mandela Social Justice Day events. Why no conservatives? Why no moderates? Why not have Ward Connerly or Jennifer Gratz, who helped end racial discrimination in California and Michigan, respectively, by sponsoring important civil rights initiatives? Why not invite Will Ford and Matt Lockett who are currently breaking racial barriers together across the country? Why only radical liberals? And why do our tax dollars go to schools that are pushing leftist agendas?
Perhaps it’s time to start asking the University of Southern Indiana and our elected officials how much in tax payer dollars it costs us to bring politically-one-sided, radical and divisive keynote speakers to influence our college-aged children into becoming radical, violent Communists, themselves.
If you would like your voice to be heard in this matter, feel free to reach out to any and all of the following numbers:
USI Assoc. Prof. of History Sakina Hughes 812-465-1093 (USI Liberal Arts Center)
USI Switchboard 812-464-8600, 812-464-1924
USI President: Dr. Ronald S, Rochon 812-464-8600
USI Board of Trustees (Appointed by the Governor of Indiana) 812-464-1756
IN Governor Eric Holcomb 317-232-4567
That gun Angela Davis owned was used to blow off the head of Judge Harold Haley.
That’s exactly right, Glen. Young Jonathan Jackson, at age 17, could not legally purchase it from the pawn shop. So Prof. Angela Davis did. Yet several Communist alibi witnesses perjured themselves during the trial, testifying that she was 300 miles south that day, playing Scrabble with them.
I would encourage the author of this piece, and anyone reading this article to read Proverbs 12:18, Ecclesiastes 10:12-14, Matthew 5:22, Colossians 3:7-8, Ephesians 4:29-30, Ephesians 4:31, Colossians 4:6.
I don’t know how many people reading this are familiar with the Christian faith, but those who are should be open to studying the message. Much to learn from the Bible!