Retired Gen. Charles Krulak, a former local college president, issued a statement saying he was saddened by Davis’ selection and questioned whether she deserved the award. He referred to details from Wikipedia discussing Davis’ membership in the Communist Party in the 1980s and her support of Soviet bloc countries in the 1970s. The statement was posted to Facebook by Richard Friedman of the Birmingham Jewish Federation last week, but has since been removed:
In the Southern Jewish Life article, author Larry Brook took issue with Davis’ stance as an “outspoken voice in the boycott-Israel movement” and her comparing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to police shootings of African-Americans.
Because her struggles and tireless work for Civil Rights here wasn’t enough. This is so evil and so evident of the kind of antiblackness that has permeated these spaces.
I’m livid. Honestly so fucking livid and so fucking tired.
She didn’t deserve this. The treatment of Palestinians in Isreal is very much like how black people were treated, and to deny that is racist. This is nothing but anti-blackness and racism, that’s all it is.
i once heard a scientist in a documentary about evolution refer to the human spine as an “architectural nightmare” and then procede to explain why every back is a bad back. it was so validating.
I adjusted my bra straps wrong one day and I’ve been in a ridiculous amount of pain for the past week.
