Berkeley students want to name campus building after a cop killer

  Students at the University of California-Berkeley want to rename a campus building because the person the building is named after, a former university president, was a white supremacist–or at least was sympathetic to white supremacy. Here is more:

students have been battling with administrators to purge the name of a past university president from one campus building. From The College Fix:

Barrows Hall is named after the university’s president from 1919 to 1923, David Barrows, an anthropologist who served as superintendent of schools in Manila when the Philippines became a U.S. colony, according to the University of California Academic Senate’s  biography in memoriam.

The Daily said his academic work was informed by “white supremacist ideology.” In 2015 the Black Student Union demanded the name’s removal among other high-priced demands, calling Barrows an “imperialist by way of anthropology [who] participated in perpetuating American colonialism.”

  I have no problem with that whatsoever, however get a load of the person the students want the building named after:

Who is this outstanding individual more worthy of recognition?

A cop killer:

The BSU insisted that Barrows Hall be renamed after Black Panther Assata Shakur, a convicted cop killer who escaped from prison in 1979 and fled to Cuba. Shakur is on the FBI’s list of most wanted terrorists.

  A convicted cop killer who escaped from jail and is living in exile in Cuba, why am I not surprised?

malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium