Will the Left ever fall out of love with cop- killer, Mumᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚia Abu-Jamal?
Apparently not. Though still serving a sentence of l𒅌ife without parole for murdering Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981, Abu-Jamal will be giving yet another commencement speech today, delivered via a pre-recorded video.
This time the clueless host institution is Vermont’s Goddard College, ♔an experimental school that issues no grades and allows students to design their own curriculum and then study it without attending꧋ classes.
Is it really any surprise that students attending a school that apparen𒅌tly sets no hard standards for an education would find themselves choosing a cold-blooded murderer for their speaker?
Goddard President Bob Kenny thinks it’s just dandy. Choosing Abu-Jamal for today’s commencement, he says, “shows how this newest group of Goddard graduates expresse꧑d their freedom 🐼to engage and think radically and critically in a world that often sets up barriers to do just that.”
Here’s an idea for thinking radically: Why not invite Maureen Faulkner — Officer Faulkner’s widow — to address the ♔Goddard grads on what Mumia Abu-Jamal has meant for her life?
Let’s recap the basics: Abu-Jamal shot her husband in the back during a traffic stop. He then stood over the officer and finished him off with four more shots, including one to the face. The gun was i♏ndisputably Abu-Jamal’s, and three witnesses saw the shooting. These facts have never been in doubt. During his trial, Abu-Jamal never denied killing Faulkner.
But the Left quickly painted Abu-Jamal as a victim of racism, and he became a cause célèbre and the toast of Hollywood. In another obscenity, just this spring a California school district asked its students to write essays comparing Abu-Jamal to Martin Luther King Jr♏.
Danny Faulkner’s widow says this of Goddard’s choice of commencement spea♏ker: “People need to start realizing that there’s right and wrong in this world.”
The t🐬ruth is Maureen Faulkner will never be invited to deliver a commencement at a place like Goddard, and for a simple reason: Such an invitation really would require students to “think radically and critically in a world that often sets up barriers to do just that.”