The former Communist Party USA vice presidential candidate Angela Davis has been on a speaking tour of college campuses, as The College Fix reports today, and last night she was at the University of Southern California.
The Daily Trojan somehow fails to notice her Communist past and association with the Black Panthers, calling her a “civil rights leader” who’s out to reform the “prison-industrial complex.”
The USC College Republicans are here to fill in the blanks, releasing a statement today that says Davis is a “proud supporter of the oppressive economic ideology of communism” and an “impediment to prosperity in the communities for which she purports to advocate for”:
The African-American members of the USC College Republicans are particularly disheartened that Davis has been branded as a leader in the Black community, and wish to make it abundantly clear that her actions, affiliations, and views in no way reflect our sentiments as USC students, African-Americans, Republicans and American citizens.
The group noted Davis told the Los Angeles Times last year that the Black Panthers’ “Ten-Point Program” was just “as relevant or more relevant” than 50 years ago:
[That program] advocated for such injustices as civil asset forfeiture, unconditional release of prison inmates and racial reparations. Let it be known that the USC College Republicans in stark contrast with Angela Davis, Black Panther sympathizers and communists, believe that all people regardless of race, socioeconomic class, gender or sexuality, should be free to exercise their economic agency, create businesses and employ their capital in free markets without unnecessary and burdensome government intervention.
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