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Editorial by: Carl Goldman
Two weeks ago, we wrote an editorial about radical activist, Angela Davis appearing at College of the Canyons, this Saturday, April 15, 2023. Since then, her appearance has created passionate feelings from both sides of the political spectrum.
Her speaking appearance at the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center is sold out so there’s obviously a lot of interest in hearing what she has to say.
Our editorial was not critical of the college’s choice in choosing Angela Davis to speak, although we question their selection because there are dozens of other progressive left-wing speakers without her checkered background.
It’s COC’s pushback by sharing they had no need to expose our kids, their students, to the other side of the political spectrum.
We’ve been told the $25,000.00 (which apparently doesn’t include travel expenses), came from a DEI grant to pay for a speaker to discuss anti-racism. Since the COC population is approximately 60% Hispanic, hopefully they’ll include a Hispanic keynote speaker in the future.
Almost all the feedback we received was in support of our editorial, asking for a balanced anti-racism speaker’s program. Suggestions for COC speaker invites included Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk, both have viewpoints that differ from Angela Davis, and they are both also anti-racist.
One reader’s comment to our original editorial, by ‘Anonymous’, claimed Angela Davis was never a Black Panther and suggested any Google search will back up that fact.
We believe ‘Anonymous’ simply read the Angela Davis bio on Wikipedia, a source that is known for cleansing left-wing bios and labeling prominent leaders who have a different narrative than Wikipedia’s viewpoint as “promoting conspiracy theories.”
But other than Wikipedia, such prominent websites as the History Channel, Smithsonian, New York Historical Society, the National Archives website, and thousands of other extremely credible websites confirm Angela Davis was indeed a member of the Black Panther party.
Even Wikipedia confirms Angela Davis is a Marxist. She ran two times as the Vice-Presidential ticket for the American Communist party and she’s a strong advocate against Israel.
Another reader claimed we would not be writing an editorial if Kyle Rittenhouse was invited to speak at COC. As we clearly stated in our previous editorial, we called for a balance of speakers, from both sides of the political spectrum. We want our students to be exposed to different viewpoints. What motivated us to speak out was that COC didn’t feel a need for any balance when we asked prior to writing our first editorial. Unfortunately, they still feel that way.
As we previously stated, we’ve been huge supporters of College of the Canyons since we first purchased KHTS radio in 1990. We’re disturbed that in 2023, the administration has not been listening to the concerns of our community.
We released our announcement about Angel Davis’s $25.000.00 speaking appearance hours before COC issued their press release. We received an e-mail that morning from one of COC’s five trustees. That board member agreed with our editorial. We learned the COC Board was not informed of the school’s decision to invite Angela Davis, or that the school spent that much money to secure her.
In the past, the board had always been asked to approve the performers who were suggested to appear at the College’s Performing Arts Center. Apparently, that has not been the case with keynote speakers.
Our intent isn’t to complain about a progressive point of view. We believe dissenting views create a healthy learning environment.
We also looked further into recent speeches by Angela Davis hoping she’s toned down her rhetoric. Apparently not.
In a recent interview, Ms. Davis stated, “We knew that the role of the police was to protect white supremacy.”
At the Women’s March on the day of President Trump’s inauguration, which protested his coming into office, Angela Davis was one of the keynote speakers. She called for the release from prison of Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Assata Shakur.
These three aren’t political prisoners we might exchange with Putin for a female basketball player. All are in American jails, having been convicted of first-degree murder of American law enforcement agents by an American jury.
Davis went on to say, “Over the next months and years we will be called upon to intensify our demands for social justice to become more militant in our defense of vulnerable populations. Those who still defend the supremacy of white male hetero-patriarchy had better watch out. The next 1,459 days of the Trump administration will be 1,459 days of resistance: Resistance on the ground, resistance in the classrooms, resistance on the job, resistance in our art and in our music.”
Click here to see the full transcript of her speech.
What’s especially ironic is Angela Davis was shocked during an interview with PBS when their reporter surprised her with evidence that her paternal lineage was white, her ancestors came aboard the Mayflower, and one of their descendants owned slaves in Alabama. It’s an interview that is still available to watch.
College of the Canyons has other choices to soften its decision to invite Angela Davis to speak by announcing they will invite other speakers later this year from opposite sides of the political spectrum, who will also speak out against racism.
We will continue to put pressure on College of the Canyons, not to stop or protest Angela Davis from speaking, but to have the college understand that we as a community are very upset, and we’d like COC to consider presenting a balance.
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I come from a law enforcement family and am furious that COC is hosting this communist, Angela Davis, who supports cop killers! Very sad that our community college has sunk to a new low .
I agree. She should be buried waste deep, mid-field at the 50 yard line, and sell tickets to the public. Festival style adult admission $20 includes 3 softball size stones. $10 more for a cinder-block or bat (3 swings max). Queue for next thrower up.
Jim Bean, That is so uncalled for. I am against Davis speaking at COC but to be so rude is not going to win anyone over. How do you expect people to hear out our point of view and opinions against Davis if you are spouting inflammatory nonsense. Your rhetoric is as bad as Davis herself. Two wrongs definitely don’t make a right. Way to close a conversation toward change.
She bought weapons used to kill a judge. So burn her at the stake then. Throw water on her and see if she melts, and winged monkeys fly out of her butt.
The money could have been better spent. Let’s see the conditions of grant.
Davis contract calls for First Class airfare and a professional driver. That is how communism works.
This is how communism works??? Classic right wing fear mongering.
Angela Davis is a civil rights hero. You condemn her but likely applaud those who stormed the capital on Jan 6. Please, those upset by this are showing their true, racist colors.
I don’t you think you’ve been keeping up with the times, your BS Jan 6th narrative has been debunked, but I’m sure your okay with the summer of 2020 riots by BLM (Blacks Laundering Money- to rich white people) and Antifa that you called peaceful protests, another BS narrative because don’t believe what the human eye sees clearly, just shut up and follow my loser Marxist narratives. She was a civil rights zero orchestrated by the CIA. For all you people want to know truth about the movement read Manning Johnson’s Color, Communism, and Common Sense to see how Blacks are being used by this corrupt system, and have been for decades.
Marxist and Communist the key words of all right wing psychobabble… please enough already
Manning Johnson’s book is a historically interesting example of propaganda.
If you read it in the context of someone who participated in McCarthyism and lied on the stand, as Johnson did, it’s in the same vein as how one might read Mein Kampf.
As for Jan 6, I’ll take Mitch McConnel’s most recent take:
“we are talking about an armed assault on the US Capitol here! This was – and is – a moment when real leadership is demanded. When political calculations about your standing in the Senate should go out the window because, well, democracy is literally being attacked right in front of you.
That’s not leadership. It’s the opposite. And the abdication of leadership by McConnell, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and others within the Republican Party are why Trump is stronger than ever today – as he continues to actively work to undermine the public’s confidence in American elections.”
Let’s not forget that the City of Santa Clarita pays COC $80,000 annually towards the PAC. We call on the city to tear up that Memorandum of Understanding
Kinda crazy how commenters act like corruption doesn’t run rampant in our government, police system and businesses across the board. It’s everywhere in our wonderful country. That’s a fact Jack.
However, most importantly to this matter, Angela Davis was held in jail for over a year before being acquitted of all charges in 1972. Get that straight, ALL CHARGES.
I am as happy with her and her views now as I was when I was a young man.
The CCP is doing a great job with its subtle infiltration of their values & mission to tear down the fabric of the USA in all areas of government, education & general traditional values! Where will this insanity end?!
God Bless you Mr. Goldman. Continue to fight the good fight. I hope you succeed in making our local college aware that our community will not quietly accept their WOKE agenda. Our children deserve a balanced education and should hear from other anti-racist key note speakers that don’t have Marxist backgrounds and a violent past against the police.
I thought professors often have guest speakers & offer up different ways of looking at events and piecing together knowledge. It’s not a matter of just espousing their opinion all day long. Students are there with hopefully open minds to broaden their understanding.
You don’t have to agree with everything a person has done to learn about how they have made their way through life. What are you so afraid of?
Let her speak but, shouldn’t “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion” include all major points of view? Disappointing, somewhat surprising and yet ironic that COC has no plans for literally presenting Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the future.
I don’t know what COC’s track record has been, but hopefully the variety of speakers will improve. In the meantime, let’s focus on a bigger problem: the hatred among us that has been fueled by our past morally vacant past president.
Just more of the CCP infiltration of DEI, CRT, BLM brainwashing! If a decent American Conservative speaker is invited, the Liberals will have a bus load of their paid Mayhem causers to disrupt freedom of speech! Wake up, not Woke up Sheeple!
Hyperbole and fear.
Freedom of Speech with your approval…hilarious.