As Twitchy reported, convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal was rushed to the hospital in March due to an unspecified medical emergency reportedly related to diabetes complications, inspiring supporters like domestic terrorist Bill Ayers to demand that his family be allowed to visit him in the hospital’s ICU.
Abu-Jamal has since been returned to prison, where he’s spent 33 years for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. Hoping to cheer up the recuperating Abu-Jamal, Marylin Zuniga, a New Jersey teacher and member of the group “Educators for Mumia Al-Jamal,” had her third grade class write “get-well” cards to the former Black Panther. According to the New York Daily News, she has been placed on paid leave while an investigation takes place, inspiring supporters to promote the #ISupportMarilyn hashtag.
Like hell I'm about to let a police union force a woman out of a job for get-well cards. It's absurd. #ISupportMarylin
— Fake Paul Bunyan (@local_maxima) April 14, 2015
As a teacher of color in the hood w/ a passion for social justice who aims to inspire my students, this story terrifies me. #ISupportMarylin
— TayGo Rebluud (@taygogoinactive) April 14, 2015
Dehumanizing prisoners for the purpose of scaring kids straight is ok but humanizing them to teach compassion is not? #ISupportMarylin
— Mike Ritzius (@mritzius) April 14, 2015
Compassion is not a crime, and the police unions will not dictate our moral compass..#ISupportMarylin because #BlackLivesMAtter
— Lili (@lilitribu) April 14, 2015
In NO WORLD should the FOP have a say in who gets to teach. Not while they allow officers to murder children with impunity. #ISupportMarylin
— Molly Tansey (@molly_tansey) April 14, 2015
#ISupportMarylin because I have a strong suspicion that as a white educator I would not be treated nearly this harshly.
— Molly Tansey (@molly_tansey) April 14, 2015
#ISupportMarylin because teachers shouldn't fear teaching their students about the injustices of this world.
— Rusul ❄️ (@RusulAlrubail) April 14, 2015
https://twitter.com/jybuell/status/587790687321530370
https://twitter.com/KeithAISR/status/587795670314135552
Among those teachers participating in the hashtag campaign is Chicago high school educator Xian Barrett, whom Michelle Malkin notes was chosen as a White House Teaching Fellow to help develop student guides to President Obama’s 2009 televised address to schoolchildren.
If a police officer kills unarmed students, he gets a paid suspension, if a teacher has them write letters, she gets an unpaid one.
— xian franzinger barrett (@xianb8) April 13, 2015
Reading over the NJ situation more, some of articles say, "Suspended w/pay" others "w/o". Unjust either way, but I'll clarify.
— xian franzinger barrett (@xianb8) April 13, 2015
#ISupportMarylin because ToC shouldn't have to comply with injustice to keep our jobs.
— xian franzinger barrett (@xianb8) April 14, 2015
#ISupportMarylin cause like 90% of the social media traffic asking for her dismissal is riddled with extreme racism.
— xian franzinger barrett (@xianb8) April 14, 2015
#ISupportMarylin because the police claiming she is misleading her students are the same ones who will be shooting at them in a few years.
— xian franzinger barrett (@xianb8) April 14, 2015
#ISupportMarylin cause I'm sick of racist systems robbing loved ones from SoC.
— xian franzinger barrett (@xianb8) April 14, 2015
Please tweet, please also commit to teach #ISupportMarylin and #MumiaAbuJamal tomorrow in class.
— xian franzinger barrett (@xianb8) April 14, 2015
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