UC Berkeley Departmental Chair: "Celebrate Queer Pride /Abolish Police"

Here’s another nugget from the pages of the Daily Californian, the campus newspaper of UC Berserkly (sic). Normally, you would assume that crazy op-eds are written by third year journalism majors who still haven’t figured out their left hand from their right foot. In this case, we have a UCB professor, a PhD named Juana Maria Rodriguez, who is an ethnic studies professor (surprise). In this masterpiece of intersectionality, her op-ed is entitled: Celebrate queer pride-abolish the police. You need to read this sitting down.

https://www.dailycal.org/2020/06/25/celebrate-queer-pride-abolish-the-police/

Note the jargon used in this literary fart.

“That fateful night on June 28, 1969, when the police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York City,Black queens and sissy boys, Puerto Rican butches and white street hustlers all banded together and fought back, refusing to obey the orders of the police to submit quietly to their own subjugation. Instead of waving rainbow flags with corporate logos and tossing carnival beads, folks were burning trash cans and throwing bricks through storefront windows; sometimes that’s what rebellion looks like.”


“The very name of that early queer rights organization shouted out its sense of solidarity with anti-colonial, anti-racist and anti-capitalist struggles happening around the world, echoing UC Berkeley’s own Third World Liberation Front, the student activist group responsible for establishing the ethnic studies department on campus — a department I am proud to chair.”

The frickin’ chair, be jeezus!

“The function of the police has always been rooted in maintaining social control. In this country, that has always meant the control of Black, Brown and Indigenous bodies and has always been about enforcing social and sexual norms dictated by the interests of capitalism, white supremacy and patriarchy.”

“There can be no queer pride without queer protest. This June 28, celebrate queer pride; work to abolish the police.”

There it is, Folks. This is what they are teaching our kids in college these days. Note that Rodriguez has to go back to the 1950s and 1960s to give her anecdotal examples of how police are mistreating gay people-and make no mistake, things were rough for gay people back then. However, America is a much more welcoming place for gays now-unlike so many other countries. Ms Rodriguez should check out some Muslim countries  to see how they treat gays. I mean, in those societies, gays go right to the top-of tall buildings to be thrown off.

But in the meantime, be sure and mark June 28 on your calendar. (Hey! That’s today!)