Comments on: How Can CCNY Name a Facility After a Convicted Cop Killer and Prison Escapee on the FBI Most Wanted List?

By: Libra (Paperback) : Sacred Clone

Libra (Paperback) : Sacred Clone — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:35:25 +0000

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By: Blue Steel & Lace

Blue Steel & Lace — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:22:36 +0000

What an idiotic thing to do.
If I were a member of their alumni association, I would cease all support.
That is absolutely shameful.

By: catawhumpus

catawhumpus — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:22:36 +0000

Political correctness. Or as a DWM (Dead White Male, Ben Franklin to be exact) said: "Passion rules, and she never governs wisely." If there is no question of guilt, then she should remain exiled, and those who really support her can join her. No pardon or good works since will ever give those men back the lives they were wrongly deprived of, they fell in the act of protecting our society, and our society should not dishonor them so. But overall, human beings can be surprisingly stupid because they forget too easily.

By: fancyname

fancyname — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:22:36 +0000

You have set up a great defense. Any institution can name themselves anything they want, no matter how ill advised. One of the best things about this country is this freedom. You, on the other hand have another freedom, one just as powerful. If this institution is funded by public monies, you – as a taxpayer- have a right to object ( again your reasoning is sound). You have the right to inform people who are funding this about this insult to the slain officer. Methophorically it would be like naming a campus after Lee Harvey Oswald or James Earl Ray.

By: winemkr

winemkr — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:22:36 +0000

Like, well, um, look man, how do weez guys no wat da trudth is. Besides, ya no does cops can be pretty mean to cop killers man.

What a crock of dung! I left New York decades ago, and I’ve never regretted it once.

By: Wikipedia

Wikipedia — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:22:36 +0000

I think employers would think twice if they were flipping through a resume of a graduate from that institution. No doubt about it. But I guess it sends a strong message to the community in which they are supposed to be hired.

Unfortunately it’s a message that will be viewed negatively by employers in that community.

By: Mark T

Mark T — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:22:36 +0000

Wow… Here I wonder if we liken Assata Shakur to Robert Burns, a fugitive who shed light on the conditions of Georgia’s chain gangs in his time. Although Mr. Burns was not convicted of murder, there were conditions or a series of events that led him (a war hero at the time) to commit his crime.

Shakur’s autobiography did not make waves large enough to attract major movies makers, but the conditions that she lived under during her time here… Well… In 1999, New Jersey State Troopers were reported to still practice racial profiling.

Then again, Mr. Burns was ‘pardoned’ first by New Jersey, then years later by Ga. And I don’t know if he has any buildings named after him.

It’s improbable that Ms. Shakur will be pardoned by a nation who’s forefathers fled from persecution they thought were unjust. So I don’t think she’ll get a fair shake in this.

Nope, I think this’ll be another trail of piss running down Uncle Sam’s red, white, and blue covered leg.

By: mammabecki

mammabecki — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:22:35 +0000

It is wrong! It is shameful! It goes against the grain of decency which should, and used to, govern our code of educating our youth to be good people and responsible citizens. It shows that CCNY is severly and wofully lacking in their responsibilities to their students and to the taxpayers.
This situation is indicative of the ultra liberal trend that seems to be so prevalent among college professors and administrators in America today. They are advocating left wing, socialistic and terrorist ideologies. This must not be allowed to happen in our universities. We must consistently fight against these evils which are obviously meant to subvert and brainwash the minds of our future generations and our future leaders. If they succeed, it will be the end of Democracy as we know it in this country. The very people who are destroying our country from within in the name of "Free Speech" and are justifying their violence in the name of Racial discrimination , are preparing the way for a dictatorship like Cuba or a socialist Communist government like the former Soviet Union. On the other hand we have other factions threatening to take over our country like the Mexican government and Alchaida.It is just too scary to think about.

The Assata Shakur situation is only part of the whole plan and the colleges are where the ripest young mind are to contaminate with all of this hate and rebellion ideology. Sounds Marxist to me! We are in big trouble if we don’t wake up and smell the coffee.

PS. How many know that Hillary Clinton was a professor of Marxism at the University of California at Berkley in the 70’s?
Frightening, isn’t it?