August 24, 2022
"Abu-Jamal was born Wesley Cook in Philadelphia in 1954. As a teenager, he co-founded a local chapter of the Black Panthers..."
"... which advocated socialism, Black nationalism and armed self-defense. He later became a radio journalist and president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, known for his sympathetic coverage of MOVE, a radical, antigovernment Black power group whose relationship with the police (who firebombed their compound in 1985, killing 11) remains a raw subject in Philadelphia. In 1982, Abu-Jamal, who had no prior criminal record, was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1981 killing of Police Officer Daniel J. Faulkner, who witnesses testified was shot by Abu-Jamal as the officer was arresting his brother.
The acquisition of his archive is not just unique, but also potentially controversial.... The archive came to Brown [through]... Johanna Fernández, a historian.... [who has said]... 'He was the Che Guevara of our time'...."
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Owing to education failure, modern black heroes leave us no papers.
Another murderer lefty saint.
"The Che Guevara of our time."
So, pretty much like a psychopathic killer, then? Apparently, in the rarified atmosphere of Brown University, that's considered a good thing.
Years ago, I listened to the President of Amherst College speak at a graduation, about his wonderful experience of harvesting sugar cane for Fidel Castro. What is it about these 'elite' institutions that makes them hire people so impervious to good sense?
Kill a cop and live out the rest of your days like a democrat...the state will pay for everything.
Mumia is a piece of fucking garbage.
No love for the victim, as usual, so here is something at least:
Daniel J. Faulkner (December 21, 1955 – December 9, 1981): Faulkner was the youngest of seven children in an Irish Catholic family from Southwest Philadelphia. Faulkner's father, a trolley car driver, died of a heart attack when Faulkner was five. Faulkner's mother went to work and relied on her older children to help raise him. He dropped out of high school, but earned his diploma and an associate's degree in criminal justice while serving in the United States Army. In 1975, Faulkner left the army, worked briefly as a corrections officer, and then joined the Philadelphia Police Department. Faulkner got married in 1979. Aspiring to attend law school and ultimately become a city prosecutor, Faulkner was enrolled in college and working toward earning a bachelor's degree in criminal justice administration when he was shot and killed.
Che got his in the end.
I used to accompany a lefty friend to various demonstrations when I lived in San Francisco years ago. I was always assured of seeing at least one FREE MUMIA sign, no matter the reason for the event.
Diversity, Inequity, and Exlusion (DIE) is another bad, but not quite wicked, solution.
Why does this fool's story get resurrected every 10 years or so? Just in time for a new group of college idiots to find a fun new cause.
The archive came to Brown [through]... Johanna Fernández, a historian.... [who has said]... 'He was the Che Guevara of our time'...."
Um ... she says that like it's a good thing.
Part of a collection on incarceration in the United States. Seems a worthwhile academic project.
Considering who Che Guevara was, that is not a compliment.
Now we send grandparents with no prior criminal history to federal prison for months because they paraded in the US Capitol. Congratulations progressives!
Poor man's Willie Horton.
'He was the Che Guevara of our time'
Wow, that's a nasty accusation. He didn't kill on Che's scale, did he?
All the wisdom in Mumia’s papers is no match for a single handwritten 3x5 card reading “If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.”
Corksoaking murderer!
Does the NYT story disclose how much Brown paid for these papers?
And when is Brown going to change its name? John and Moses Brown, along with their father, were slave owners.
"...Mumia Abu-Jamal/Abu-Jamal, convicted of the 1981 murder of a police officer, became the face of the anti-death penalty movement”
Hee. Sounds like he’s only anti-death when it’s his own.
'He was the Che Guevara of our time'...."
A psychotic murderer then? Yeah, seems about right.
Che Guevara was a hideous person and notorious sadist and murderer too. Perhaps a more apt comparison than Ms. Fernandez intended.
As long as he stays in prison, the rest is details.
...who firebombed their compound in 1985, killing 11
The police did not firebox their compound.
The police did bomb their compound in order to destroy the bunker they had built on the roof. This caused a fire. The fire spread out of control because the people in the compound were shooting, preventing firefighters from doing their jobs.
Mumia is a murdering sh*tbag but his cult is persistent and delusional.
If you commit a crime, you should face the music for it, no matter how loud and shrill the shrieks are from the true believers.
Just another violent democrat activist.
It isn't like BLM just started burning down cities recently.
BLM was just a way to grift money.
Democrats have been violent for decades.
Nazis, Maoists, Stalinists, Hutus, Xhosas, Kenyan elitists, KKK, Black Panthers, Guevarists, Islamic Statists, Transhumanists ... rabid diversitists, socially progressive movements
Some, Select [Black] Lives Matter (SS[B]LM)
Want to know how fucked up The Evergreen State College is? They had this guy piped in to be their commencement speaker in 1999.
Is it dead?
Democrats have been violent for decades.
Wicked solutions to ostensibly hard problems for twice the profit.
"The Che Guevara of our time."
meaning he became a cause célèbre among brain-dead leftists
ITs not that the NYt's and their readers love black criminals and killers, its that they hate working class and lower-middle class Americans.
What better way to express your contempt/hatred of "Joe and Jose Six pack" and "Karens" then celebrate a black murderer and preen about "racism"? I mean outside of busting unions, and importing cheap foreign labor.
He should have kept his parent-given "dead name" from when mom and dad first determined that their baby... fetus was the male sex.
Nobody has a "prior criminal record" until they get caught the first time.
Both Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy had no prior criminal record
Che was a piece of sewage murderer and sadist. Anyone who invokes his name in a positive way should be kept far away from any institute of learning and from any institution that gets public funding. I used to think these kinds of people were mislead. Now I just think they are evil.
I am almost fell out of my chair when the article notes at the end that his archive includes letters from Angela Davis. Who would have thunk it.
Sebastian said...that's a nasty accusation. He didn't kill on Che's scale, did he?
They don't make Che Guevaras like they used to.
What fools.
I saw my first "Free Mumia" car sticker when I went to work at the University of Vermont back at the beginning of the 1990s. I was curious about who this, "Mumia" was and researched it. It became clear, very quickly and easily, that Mumia was absolutely guilty.
Since the article is behind the NYT paywall, I am not sure it was mentioned, but Philly's mayor at the time was Wilson Goode, Philly's first black mayor. He took responsibility for the firebombing, but has claimed he was unfamiliar with the total plan.
Readering: "Part of a collection on incarceration in the United States. Seems a worthwhile academic project."
Are there any academic projects tracking murderers who shoot cops multiple times?
"And when is Brown going to change its name? John and Moses Brown, along with their father, were slave owners."
Maybe they could change it to "Shit-Colored".
Not a single person on this blog defending Mumia?
All anyone ever needed to know about the "anti-death penalty movement" was that they made this guy their face.
I was hoping Althouse was linking to an obituary. Alas, it's just a puff-piece for a cold-blooded killer.
Brylinski, you came to the wrong blog comments.
Ask Mitt Romney about him. He probably thinks he's OK. BLM and all that.
Joe Biden is STEALING our tax dollars and giving them to his friends. And any Republican who promises to put him and his co-conspirators in jail once they take over the White House gets my vote.
Another beatification of a black thug.
Brylinski said...Not a single person on this blog defending Mumia?
Not many fans of cop killers here, but you’re welcome to give it a go if you like.
I suspect most of this moron's "papers" will be housed in little red packets illustrated in black-and-white with "Zig Zag" and a Zouave soldier rolling a smoke.
https://zigzag.com/pages/zz-history
Howard said...
"Poor man's Willie Horton."
On October 26, 1974, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Horton and two accomplices robbed Joseph Fournier, a white 17-year-old gas station attendant, and then fatally stabbed Fournier 19 times after he had cooperated by handing over all of the money in the cash register. His body was stuffed in a trash can so his feet were jammed up against his chin. Fournier died from blood loss.
That was before Governor Rape-My-Wife-Please let him out for a weekend crime spree.
My relatives lived near MOVE. People from this movement harassed the neighbors in that middle class mixed race neighborhood.
The MOVE cult pretended to live how people live in Africa: but it was based on a fantasy.
They were being served a warrant for child neglect because the kids ran around with no clothes and were undernourished because they were fed uncooked food.
The cops did not bomb the place. It was a flash bang, used in many hostage situations (including when Iranians took over an embassy in London about that time). But the cult stored gasoline on their roof which caught fire.
The fear of being shot, or that the cult's stored ammunition would explode and kill firefighters, allowed the fire to spread.
Ironically most of the middle class who lost their homes didn't make a big fuss about this: usually only white or radicals spread the lies.
and I see from the article that the lies are still being spread.
Brylinski: "Not a single person on this blog defending Mumia?"
The entirety of the legacy media defending him along with every lefty blog not enough for you?
Are you looking for North Korea level agreement %'s?
rcocean: "Ask Mitt Romney about him. He probably thinks he's OK. BLM and all that."
Mittens hasn't received his directives yet from his Candy Crowley-like democratical masters.
Mumia is no longer on Death Row; the death penalty was reversed by the PA Supreme Court upon his umpteenth appeal. They will never stop trying to get his conviction reversed, and now that Larry Krasner is the Philadelphia District Attorney there is a good chance that will happen.
Having worked for many years in the appeals unit of the Philadelphia DA's Office I can assure you that there are no legitimate reasons to challenge his conviction.
i wanna hear want Igna thinks!!
Gladfly? anyone?
>> I can assure you that there are no legitimate reasons to challenge his conviction.
Illegitimate ones will work just fine, thanks.
Che Guvera was also a homicidal psychopath treated like a teen idol by the ghouls on the Left.
Not enough in this story for me to be sure I am right, but this Johanna Fernández sounds a lot like a type dramatically and tragically identified in the first chapter, on Fay Stender, in "Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the '60s," by Peter Collier and David Horowitz. Stender was a jailhouse lawyer and romantic dupe of the Panther hustlers way, way back. Unlike Fernandez apparently, Stender came to her senses about the game they played on her. However, it was too late for her anyway. It is a gripping tale and still as relevant as hell.
Couldn't Biden just roll a pardon for Mumia into student debt forgiveness? If you're going to do illegal shit to buy leftist votes anyway, why not wrap as many leftist causes into the effort as you can get away with?
Fucking scum. Our tax dollars paid for him to have his own radio show on NPR, and celebrities including that overrated pussy Paul Newman lobbied for his release.
Are the death treats against Shannon Faulkner, the murdered cop's wife, going to be part of the archive? She deserves an archive all her own. She has never stopped fighting the Mumia cult.
Tough lady.
Fucking scum. Our tax dollars paid for him to have his own radio show on NPR, and celebrities including that overrated pussy Paul Newman lobbied for his release.
Are the death treats against Shannon Faulkner, the murdered cop's wife, going to be part of the archive? She deserves an archive all her own. She has never stopped fighting the Mumia cult.
Tough lady.
Tina Trent said: "Are the death treats against Shannon Faulkner, the murdered cop's wife, going to be part of the archive? She deserves an archive all her own. She has never stopped fighting the Mumia cult."
Yes she is tough, incredibly so. Correction though: her name is Maureen.
I was present in the courthouse during one of Mumia's post-conviction appellate hearings. Maureen flew in from California to be present during this multi-day hearing and had to have police escort her through the pro-Mumia crowds into the courtroom. Many were the calls of "bitch" lobbed her way by those champions of justice. Maureen, she was a piece of steel.
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