Is Mao next as an honoree? Jury isn't out on Angela Davis

She has been in service to us all, lately: Black Panther Angela Davis lent her voice to the Occupy Oakland movement when she appeared at one of the rallies.

Angela Davis Lends 'Authenticity' To Occupy Oakland Protests ...

Jury isn't out on Angela Davis - Washington Times
Ronald Rodash 3-12-12

D.C. government — honor eight “Black Women Paving the Way to Greatness in Politics.”

One might quibble with some of the choices, but most of them are women who indeed deserved to be celebrated. They include: Shirley Chisholm, the first black congresswoman and the first black woman who sought to run for president; Carol Moseley Braun, the first black female U.S. senator; former National Security Council adviser and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the first black female to hold both offices;Patricia Roberts Harris, the first black female Cabinet secretary, U.S. ambassador and law school dean; and our current first lady, Michelle Obama.

One of these personifications of “greatness,” however, comes as a shock, especially in the context of a court of law. It is none other thanAngela Davis, a black activist who came to prominence in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party U.S.A. and the radical black group theBlack Panther Party. Ms. Davis was such a high profile communist in the latter days of the Cold War that she was awarded the so-called “Lenin Peace Prize,” given to her in a Moscow ceremony by Soviet leaderLeonid Brezhnev himself.

Of course, Ms. Davis, too, was a trailblazer in her own way.

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