Funding Farrakhan FollowerLA Democrat seeks public funding for Cal State project headed by Nation of Islam acolyte Anthony Asadullah Samad.
California Senate Bill 426, by Sen. Steven Bradford, Los Angeles Democrat, requires the California State University “to establish the Dymally Fellows Project, to be operated out of the Mervyn M. Dymally African American Political and Economic Institute at the California State University, Dominguez Hills.” The bill appropriates $300,000 in public funds “to develop and implement the project.”
According to his senate bio, the CSU Dominguez Hills grad “currently serves on the board of the Mervyn M. Dymally African American Political and Economic Institute, a non-partisan public policy think tank.” Katy Grimes of the California Globe cautioned that Bradford’s bill is “ethically dubious, since he is authoring a bill to give his own organization money.” As Grimes also discovered, that was hardly the only ethical issue at hand.
The current executive director of the Dymally institute is Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, who runs a Twitter feed that includes “some questionable hashtags.” Under #CrackerChronicles, Dr. Samad sent out tweets such as “Degrees matter. Race still matters more. Employers take note!!!” Another tweet hailed a speech at Cal State Dominguez Hills by Angela Davis, the African American who in 1979 was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by an all-white, all-male Communist dictatorship. Angela Davis twice ran for vice president with the Communist Party USA under white Stalinist Gus Hall.
