“Who judged her to be ‘courageous?’”
AG News reports that Marquette University officials fired their Gender and Sexuality Resource Center director after reports of a mural there featuring cop-killer and wanted terrorist Assata Shakur. Shakur was convicted of the execution-style killing of a New Jersey trooper in 1973 before she escaped prison and fled to Cuba, where she’s lived in exile ever since.
Earlier this week, Marquette officials removed a large mural of Shakur from the Sexuality Center, which included quotes from her autobiography, after associate professor of political science John McAdams criticized the piece on his blog, the Marquette Warrior. The next day, university officials fired the Center’s director, Susannah Bartlow.
Upon becoming aware of the mural, the university issued a statement which read, in part:
This is extremely disappointing as the mural does not reflect the Guiding Values of Marquette University. It is being removed immediately. We are reviewing the circumstances surrounding the mural and will take appropriate action.
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