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Kamaji:
Majority of CUNY trustees remain silent as disgust mounts over law grad’s ‘hate speech’

By Carl Campanile and Emily Crane
May 31, 2023

The silence is deafening as the vast majority of CUNY Board of Trustees refused to weigh in Wednesday as outrage over a law school graduate’s now notorious “hate-filled” commencement speech continues to mount — and the school’s dean faces calls to be fired.

Just five of CUNY’s 17 board members have publicly denounced law school graduate Fatima Mousa Mohammed’s May 12 commencement speech calling for a “revolution” to take on the legal system’s “white supremacy.”

She also blasted the NYPD as “fascist” and accused Israel of indiscriminately murdering Palestinians, sparking widespread condemnation and calls for the public university to be stripped of its taxpayer funds.

Among those who have denounced are trustees chairman Bill Thompson and vice chair Sandra Wilkin, who put out a joint statement Tuesday describing Mohammed’s remarks as “hate speech.”

Thompson insisted on Wednesday night that the statement was written on behalf of the entire Board of Trustees — even though their signatures weren’t inked on it a day earlier.

Reached by The Post earlier in the day, seven of the trustees either refused to comment or hid behind that statement.  The five remaining trustees didn’t respond at all.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/05/31/many-cuny-trustees-stay-silent-about-hate-speech-uproar/

PeteS in CA:

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The surprise in this is that 5 of the 17 did denounce the hate-filled speech. They'd better update their resumes! And have 24x7 security around their homes.

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