Challenge to Goddard Graduates: Purchase Your Dignity

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a convicted murderer who shot Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel J. Faulkner (born December 21, 1955 the youngest of seven children) in the back and in the head on December 9, 1981. The Goddard college graduating class has invited him to speak at their commencement:
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Here is an open challenge to them:

Give your first year's salary to Maureen Faulkner as atonement for inviting her husband's murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal to give your commencement address.

Daniel Faulkner's widow Maureen still walks, breathes, dreams, and cries like every one of you students, your professors, each of the Mahoney State Correctional Institution in Frackville, Penn, each of the police on duty this very hour, and as well as every one of you reading this petition.

Some ideas are better than others. The notion that "freedom to engage and think radically and critically in a world that often sets up barriers to do just that" is a license to disrespect the legacy and dignity of all officers killed, their families, and friends is preposterous.

Whatever Mumia Abu-Jamal has to say can be sought out by anyone wishing to sample his brand of thinking, and discussed at length in public or private, no barriers or critical thinking needed. Legitimizing any diatribe he may have with a Goddard College invitation lends nothing to his words, nor does it lend any radical or critical elements to your thinking. Most likely it degrades your institution at its foundation.

Assuming no monumental shift in your sentiment emerges great enough to rescind the invitation, I call on you to each pledge to give your first year's salary to Maureen Faulkner after graduation as atonement for the grievious assault on her dignity.