$Photo exhibit at D.C. Superior Court building celebrates 60s radical Angela Davis? (She's included among black women who exemplify greatness) \$

Photo exhibit at D.C. Superior Court building celebrates 60s radical Angela Davis? (She's included among black women who exemplify greatness) \

by ~ The Rebel ~ Posted 2012/03/12 18:42:20

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Jury isn’t out on Angela Davis

Black radical is among honorees on D.C. court wall

Potential jurors reporting for jury duty in the D.C. Superior Court building have of late been passing a photo exhibit celebrating renowned black women in a series of posters, each featuring portraits of trailblazers exemplifying greatness in their respective fields.

Included among the posters, hung for Black History Month on the walls outside the jurors’ lounge, is one in which the D.C. courts — the federally funded judicial branch of the D.C. government — honor eight “Black Women Paving the Way to Greatness in Politics.”

One of these personifications of “greatness,” however, comes as a shock, especially in the context of a court of law. It is none other than Angela Davis, a black activist who came to prominence in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party U.S.A. and the radical black group the Black Panther Party. Ms. Davis was such a high profile communist in the latter days of the Cold War that she was awarded the so-called “Lenin Peace Prize,” given to her in a Moscow ceremony by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev himself.

lm1b2 2012/03/12 21:17:56

Why not they celebrate Martin Luther Kings "Greatness" don't they?

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jr 2012/03/12 20:31:03

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A lot of people refuse to acknowledge we have a communist revolution going on when it is right in their faces

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ProudProgressive 2012/03/12 19:11:55

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I don't think that's appropriate. While Ms. Davis has never been convicted of any crimes, and while the First Amendment protects her right, as well as everyone else's, to state her political views, given the volatility of the era and her involvement in it, I think other choices would have been better.

But what's equally disturbing is that this display is also honoring a war criminal, and a person whose corruption and incompetence led to the deaths of thousands of Americans. Her name is Condoleezza Rice. She was the National Security Advisor who decided that receiving a high priority warning from the CIA that Osama bin Laden was planning a major attack on U.S. soil was a good time to take a month long vacation. After that she was complicit in developing the false intelligence reports that George Bush used to defraud the United States Congress into passing the famous Iran Resolution, as well as part of the team that implemented the unconstitutional torture of detainees during the Bush Administration.

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~ The Rebel ~ 2012/03/12 18:43:24

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Of course, Ms. Davis, too, was a trailblazer in her own way.

A poster hanging on the wall in the D.C. Superior Court building in Washington, D.C. shows “Black Women Paving the Way to Greatness in Politics.” It curiously includes Ms. Davis. (The Washington Times)

She was the second black woman to make the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. She earned that distinction as a fugitive wanted on murder and kidnapping charges stemming from her role in a notorious attack on a courtroom in Marin County in California.

http://www.washingtontimes.co...

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