Mumia Abu-Jamal
By Sergio Bichao February 4, 2017 6:44 PM
WEST DEPTFORD — A South Jersey elementary school principal got a lesson on checking her work after assigning students as young as 6 a project that honored a convicted cop killer.
The school-wide assignment at Red Bank Elementary School was actually supposed to honor famous black Americans for Black History Month.
But the list of notable black figures included Mumia Abu-Jamal and Angela Davis alongside Louis Armstrong, Mohammad Ali, Crispus Attucks and George Washington Carver.
Abu-Jamal, a black nationalist, was convicted of killing Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981. He has maintained his innocence even though he was found wounded from a gunshot at the scene alongside his fired gun.
Davis, meanwhile, is a social justice activist and communist who was a one-time fugitive after being charged as an accessory in a violent and deadly 1970 takeover of a California courtroom. Prosecutors tried to tie her to the incident because the guns had belonged to her, but an all-white federal jury acquitted her.
What the principal failed to notice, many parents did — including Bryan Klugh, who alerted his friends on the police force.
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Don’t believe it was an “oops!”
When is White History Month?
Is that the month we bash white male historic figures like Columbus, Washington, Adams, Rockefeller and Morgan?
Don’t think for a minute that these ‘oops’ moments are limited to West Deptford. A few of these screwballs teach here in Ridgewood. Parents, keep talking to your kids to combat the institutional programming.