UCLA’s New Cover Girl

lkjReprinted from PJMedia.

Look whose photo graces the campus of UCLA, meant to be an inspiration to incoming students. The woman in the photo is standing above the slogan: “We Question.” On the right-hand side, in small letters, students are informed that they are “the optimists.”

This banner adds to the shadow that today is cast over so many of our major universities.

For those who can’t identify her, the photo depicts Angela Davis, the notorious former Communist Party USA leader who, beginning in the ’60s, molded together black nationalism with Marxism-Leninism. She created a heady brew for recruiting new cadre into the CP and the original Black Panther Party of Huey Newton.

Some optimist! Davis believed in the triumph of Communism.

For her loyalty to the Soviet Union and its foreign policies, in 1972 she was awarded a Lenin Centenary Medal in the Soviet Union, after which she spoke to thousands at an outdoor rally in Moscow. Next, speaking at a factory in Kirov, Davis praised the workers for not using “products of labor [to fuel] the irrational drive for capitalist profits as it is used in our country.”

As she left Moscow and went up the stairs to enter her plane, she yelled out with a clenched fist: “Long live the science of Marxism-Leninism.” There is not an iota of evidence that she questioned anything about the dreary reality in the Soviet Union and their Eastern European client states.

Davis also received the International Lenin Peace Prize — formerly called the Stalin Peace Prize — from the STASI state of East Germany in 1979. She was awarded it for supposedly strengthening “peace among peoples,” but it was actually for her continued fidelity to the Soviet bloc, which to her represented the future of humanity.

Not only did she not “question” authority, Davis openly defended the repressive measures of the Communist states by endorsing their imprisonment of dissident intellectuals. When the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the movement for “socialism with a human face” that the citizens of the country believed they could pull off without Soviet intervention, Davis strenuously supported the invasion that was forthcoming.

In 1970, she was implicated in a plot to free her imprisoned lover, black revolutionary George Jackson, whose brother took over a Marin County courtroom and took the judge hostage, as well as an assistant DA and two jurors.

After a gun battle, the judge was murdered by a shotgun owned by Davis.

Davis then fled, assumed different aliases, and disguised how she looked. She was brought to trial, and to great amazement of those who believed no black could get a fair trial in the U.S., the jury found her innocent. As it turned out, the jurors were all defenders of Davis. One juror even faced TV news cameras and gave the clenched-fist salute, indicating their lack of objectivity or intent to evaluate the evidence.

After the jury’s acquittal of Davis, Pelikan wrote: “Try to help [the imprisoned Czech dissidents] so they can defend themselves against their accusers as you have been able to do in your country.” His plea fell on deaf ears. She had a close friend, another black female American Communist Party leader, tell the press that Davis believed that the critics of the Czech regime were counter-revolutionaries who were undermining socialism, and therefore were undeserving of support.

Davis’ entire life reveals a woman who, rather than question authority, uses her skills to attack the very democracy she lives in — which allowed her to teach at a university, obtain highly paid speaking engagements, and publish scores of books attacking the American government.

After 9/11, Davis said: “The United States significantly contributed to conditions that led to the violence on September 11.” As for demands that she not be allowed to speak, she said in a campus speech at Keene State College in New Hampshire that she finds it “bizarre, if freedom is being defended, that it is necessary to curtail freedom in order to defend freedom.”

As we have seen, she had a very different view when it came to defending freedom in the so-called “people’s democracies.”

From the ’60s to the present, Angela Davis has been a thoughtless propagandist for every far Left cause one can imagine. How did she ever become a Communist and believe in the Leninist theory of “dialectical materialism” and all of its mumbo-jumbo? The answer comes from the high school which she attended — Elisabeth Irwin H.S., the upper level division of the famed private school the Little Red School House, referred to by its critics with an additional three words: “for little Reds.”

I attended the same high school to which Davis got a scholarship and then moved from her middle-class black home in Birmingham, Alabama, to attend in New York City. There she was taught history by its longstanding history teacher, a man named Harold Kirshner — the very same man who taught me that “dialectical materialism is a science” and that Marxism explained the world. The author of a recent book [2] about the high school writes that it was the same Kirshner who “effected a life-altering transformation in Davis” by assigning her the works of Marx and Engels. The effect it had, Davis said, hit her “like a bolt of lightning.” After that she graduated from Kirshner to taking a class from the official CP “historian” Herbert Aptheker at a Communist school he had set up in the city.

One might ask: Why is Davis so important? The answer is that today’s cultural elites, like whoever at UCLA decided to adorn the campus with her photo, treat any rebel — even a dogmatic ideologue like Angela Davis — as a leader from which students can learn valuable lessons. It is these academics who treat her as both a saint and a leader, and who constantly invite her to give major speeches on our campuses which they urge their students to attend.

To herald Angela Davis as a person who questions anything reveals the mindset of our university administrators, and is itself more evidence of the decline of standards at our major colleges and universities. Expect Ms. Davis to be a graduation speaker sometime in UCLA’s future. That is the logical next step in helping Angela Davis lead her march to a communist future via “the long march through the existing institutions.”

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  • truebearing

    The “science of Marxism-Leninism?” That brain-dead parrot doesn’t know a damn thing about science. The only thing the many experiments in Marxism have consistently produced is grinding poverty, massive pollution, and millions of dead citizens.

    That she was allowed to damage this country and remain free is testimony to the craven leadership in law enforcement and the justice system. She should have spent her life behind bars.

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    • nimbii

      This is so true. These people know nothing about creating the wealth that economies need to feed their people.

      All they know is how to redistribute other people’s wealth to feed their people (until of course, the system collapses from euthanasing the producers of that wealth).

    • Wattpuppy

      You are so right. How is possible that a publicly funded university is allowed to have such a disgusting, hateful, hypocritical miscreant drawing a paycheck? Members of sybionese liberation army, black panthers, weather underground, communist party of America! these are the organizations we draw our professors from? WTF!

  • tha92106

    Another reason to not support UCLA-and I’m a UCLA Alumni lifetime member.

  • BeautifulAmerica

    And the Mooch is following right in Davis’ corrupt, despicable footsteps. Look at the communist salute she gives here:

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/15/Michelle-Obama-Brags-About-Obama-Economy-As-Stock-Market-Tumbles

    ..and try not to vomit at her ignorance and lust.

  • JOHNNY HINDS

    I graduated from U.C. Berkeley in ’66 and managed to leave just as the Radical Communists/Socialists were taking over. Sad to say, for a long time, I was ashamed to admit that I was a Berkeley grad. When asked where I went to school, I would lie and tell them I went to another college or that I did not attend college at all. I wonder how many others who graduated from the U.C. system did the same thing?

  • Vinegar Hill

    This is a highly distorted and trivialized version regarding aspects of the life of Angela Davis.
    The author writes that in “a gun battle, the judge was murdered by a shotgun owned by Davis.” It was the police that opened fire which resulted in the death of the judge, three black men and injuries to a juror and the prosecutor.
    At the trial she was found innocent, due to insufficient evidence, by an all white jury, which would have been a rare verdict considering the racism that existed in the US.
    What is most important though, is her work in the field of social reforms that has led to her photo on posters on the UCLA campus. She has worked extensively on prison reform, racism, sexism, gay rights and social programmes linked to education. The result being that she is an ideal role model for students to emulate.

    • truebearing

      “This is a highly distorted and trivialized version regarding aspects of the life of Angela Davis.”

      In other words, Radosh is right on. Leftists always lie and always try to revise history. Your pathetic attempt to defend the undefendable is a perfect example.

      • Vinegar Hill

        I used examples to support my claim why have you not done so regarding yours? Are you stuck?
        Angela Davis is more than qualified to be seen as a role model as I explained earlier. Not only can she be praised for her “social work” but she has a wealth of life experiences. She has links to the struggle for civil rights in the US to political connections during the cold war period. She is a gem to be absorbed by students as a resource of experience. They should be grateful for having such a personality available to educate and inform.

        Are you jealous?

        • JB Ziggy Zoggy

          Davis is a deranged communist turd who has spent her entire life in the fantasyland of academia. People flush turds. They don’t get jealous of them.

        • truebearing

          You used examples…wow! I’m impressed. The problem is that you didn’t really provide examples of anything other than your opinion.

          You say she has “a wealth of life experiences”. Who doesn’t?

          You claim she worked civil rights, sexism, racism and the highly specific category of “social programmes.” So what? That proves nothing other than the liklihood she is a communist, which she was and still is. Communists killed 100,000,000 of the citizens living in their wonderful “utopias” during the 20th Century. Communism is evil, yet Davis collaborated with the Soviets, making her a traitor, treasonous, and seditious. She should have faced a firing squad long ago.

          She isn’t a gem, she is a poisonous leftist revolutionary female dog — one of the lowest of the low. She doesn’t teach, she indoctrinates with lies.

          Am I jealous? That was a moronic question. Jealous of what?

          • Vinegar Hill

            There are only a handful of people who have experienced political and social involvement such as that encountered by Davis. I take it from your response you can’t handle that .
            What are you advocating? That students be denied the right to listen to her talk and then to debate the rights and wrongs of what she says.
            You have your ears blocked because you can’t handle the wealth of knowledge and experience that someone like Angela Davis can share with the youth of today.

          • truebearing

            Your argument is moronic. Just because she had experiences doesn’t make them good, or worth teaching. Ted bubdy had lots of experiences, but even you can see that there is no merit in the experiences of a serial killer.

            There is no merit in someone who supports an ideology that practices mass democide either.

    • Breaker Morant

      Post some links to her published works–I am curious yellow.

      • Vinegar Hill

        If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance

        Women, Race, & Class

        Are Prisons Obsolete?

        • JB Ziggy Zoggy

          Those are the words of a hate filled lunatic.

        • truebearing

          Mindless Marxist delusions, all. She has a third rate intellect and no conscience. Everything she has ever written has been the vomit from a person indoctrinated with an untenable, failed political theory and endless hate.

          • Vinegar Hill

            Look at the history of democracy starting with the Greeks. Look at the numerous times it has failed and vanished from the political map. The same sequence will happen with Marxism/communism. It was only born yesterday within the concept of historical time. The “specter” will come back to haunt you!
            When you go top sleep at night check under the bed….you might find some reds there! Anyway, don’t forget “better red than dead”!!

          • truebearing

            Stupid equivalency. Democracies, or democratic republics, don’t commit mass murder against their own citizens. Democracies fail because people are flawed.

            Communism fails because it is flawed and the malcontents that adhere to it are seriously deluded, looking for personal power, or both. Davis is a perfect example.

            Fools like yourself think people like Davis actually have something to offer young people… and they do. They offer rage, hate, lies, poverty, corruption, envy, and a dismal future.

          • Biff Henderson

            “better red than dead”!!(sic) or did they wish it so?
            In a letter of 1921 Lenin wrote:
            ‘I hope we will be hanged on a stinking rope. And I did not lose the hope that this would happen, because we cannot condemn dirty bureaucracy. If this happens, it will be well done.’

            Many prominent Party members committed suicide or were executed by the State. Marx died in despair.
            He did have an opinion on the likes of Angela Davis:

            “Without slavery, North America, the most progressive of countries, would be transformed into a patriarchal country. Wipe North America from the map of the world and you will have anarchy-the complete decay of modern commerce and civilization. Abolish slavery and you will have wiped America off the map of nations.”

            The champion of the proletariat championed black slavery in North America. Marx identified black people with “idiots” and the vulgarian often used “n^gger” in private correspondence. Blacks ignorant of history embrace totalitarian ideologies whose founders and adherents despise their race. ‘Abd, n*gger, take your pick.

        • objectivefactsmatter

          “Resisting” (fomenting revolution against) reality. Not smart.

    • JB Ziggy Zoggy

      The police forced the terrorists to shoot the judge? How was Davis innocent? She was one of the terrorists. She is a racist and sexist of lunatic proportions, as all of her idiotic rants prove conclusively, and homosexuals already have rights, so by advocating for special privileges for them she is actually advocating to take rights away from heterosexuals.

      She is a despicable piece of trash, and so are you for defending her lifelong dedication to hatred.

      • truebearing

        Vinegar Douche has no conscience. He is a mindless Borg, goose stepping to the drumbeat of evil, but be careful when debating him. He uses “examples.”

      • Vinegar Hill

        Do you know what you have written? You are now calling the 17 year old a terrorist! What an imagination you have! Davis fought for racial equality and also fought for homosexuals who did not have equal rights by law.
        You seem to be very muddled.

    • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

      “It was the police who opened fire” – so what? It was George Jackson’s brother who initiated the use of force against the innocent by taking those people hostage. The only pity is that he couldn’t be killed without any other casualties. The weapons were owned by Angela Davis, implicating her in the plot, and she should have been imprisoned for her part in the conspiracy.

      End of story, you communist!

      • truebearing

        Correction. That’s communist ______ (fill in the blank with an appropriately derogatory noun).

        • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

          Good addition.

      • Vinegar Hill

        “The only pity is that he couldn’t be killed without any other casualties.” Right, kill first and answer the questions afterwards. They could have negotiated and done a deal with the 17 year old who instigated the kidnapping and nobody would have died.
        Angela Davis was declared innocent, why do you say she should have been imprisoned? Is that what you call justice? She was declared and proved innocent and therefore send her to gaol! What a warped interpretation of the law!

        • http://www.stubbornthings.org NAHALKIDES

          Davis should have been found guilty, since it was her weapons that were used, and then sent to prison, o.k.? I was saying that the verdict was wrong, not that innocent people should be sent to jail.

    • garyfouse

      Vinegar Hill,

      I am old enough to recall the event. The judge’s head was blown off by a shotgun that one of the attackers had attached to his head during the standoff. There are photos of that if you care to do the research. Davis fled and hid-evidence in itself of knowledge of guilt.

      In addition, the history of the civil rights movement shows that people who Martin Luther King who protested peacefully were right and that those who advocated violence, like Davis’ Black Panther pals were wrong.

      You should wise up. Davis is growing old trying to convince students that their country is evil. Her presence in the UC system at UCSC is an embarrassment.

    • nightspore

      I was reading this with some amazement, then I recognized the moniker.

      Do you people have any idea of how predictable you are? You’re like wind-up toys – or those figures that come out of clock-towers when they chime and make their jerky walk to the other side. Except instead of responding on the hour, you pop out and do your routine after each posting that describes the latest leftwing absurdity.

      How can you defend an idiot like Angela Davis? She’s a caricature – a Professor of Consciousness or something like that the last time I heard about her (yes, seriously). She should be an embarrassment even to someone on the Left unless they’re as lame-brained as she is.

  • nimbii

    Faculty lounge bubble of truth is the result of consensual validation of graduate research into what better be just like the rest of us did or you don’t get your PhD.

  • Breaker Morant

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcZn2-bGXqQ

    “Angie” was written in honor of Angela Davis. Mick always liked his brown sugar.

    • truebearing

      No wonder the song sucks so bad.

      Jagger is slime. The hypocrite amassed as much money as he possibly could, while ruining the lives of his fans and girlfriends with his evil message and lifestyle, but writes songs about communists. The consummate narcissist, it is small wonder he is a hypocritical leftist.

      When is Mick going to write a song to Brian Jones and apologize for having him murdered?

    • iluvisrael

      I think you’re wrong on this one – the song is about David Bowie’s then wife Angie.

      • Breaker Morant

        Actually, the song’s origin has been much debated, though your view is probably the correct one. It is not known for sure if Mick actually tasted any of that Oakland brown sugar, but Bowie’s wife has claimed that she caught Mick and David in bed together. Not doing anything, per se, just in bed together. Perhaps the song was meant to soothe her troubled emotions. Maybe Mick felt bad that she had been left out of things. The consensus is, though, that the song was about Angela Bowie, as you attest. I do like my version of the lore better, however. Maybe I can start a rumor that “Honky Tonk Women” was about a one night threesome between Jagger, Margaret Trudeau, and an obscure young lawyer named Hillary.

  • barney59

    Disgusting.

  • fmobler

    UCLA’s full slogan is “We question; you don’t”

  • Scar

    I’m sure she was acquitted by a jury of her peers, in much the same way as double murderer O.J. Simpson. Stacking the jury is a good way to get off, if you can afford it (i.e. the “dream team”). I’ll bet that Ms. Davis sleeps well at night by donating most of her speaking fees to “the people!” Right on, Comrade Davis!

  • TMRYAx2

    F.U.C.L.A.

  • garyfouse

    And where is she today? Teaching at UC Santa Cruz in the-get this- History of Consciousness Department!

  • sakovkt

    The Major Universities of our Time are Signing their own Suicide Notes.
    Centralized Education fails just like Centralized Government.
    They both have Nothing when they Lose Trust.
    Reality Cannot be Compromised.

  • Clockp

    Communism, fascism, dictatorships, Islamo-fascism, one party rule, People’s Temple, etc. are nothing more than cults, “all power to the state/godhead/fill in the blank”, where people give up all their rights to the self-anointed ruling elite. Like the Democratic Party demands of its followers, under the rubric “social justice”, “fairness”, “equality” and other false claims to morality. Our founding fathers were true renaissance men and women, recognizing that our rights are granted to us individually by our creator, and that morality comes from each one of us making our own decisions and agreeing to abide by behavioral restraints and protocol, IE the law; not dictates from a kangaroo court of mullahs or whomever.