I haven’t said anything about Ward Churchill yet, but I’ll start with a re-wording of this headline from Bob’s Place:
Ward Churchill – fake Indian and genuine Nazi
Should the bucket-o-scum be fired for his hate-filled rhetoric? No. Free speech and all that stuff.
The bucket-o-scum should never have been hired in the first place.
Should *CU fire the bucket-o-scum for incompetence, lying about being a Native American, and for making up his own research?
Yes, they should.
Read much more at these top-notch Blogs:
- A Fake Perpetrates a Fraud — Powerline
- Colorado U Law Prof on Ward Churchill — Austin Bay
- Ward Churchill A Phony Native American: AIM — Captain’s Quarters
- Fire Ward Churchill? — Blogs for Bush (make sure to read the indepth commentary)
UPDATE: ajm – errata non grata, a graduate student in journalism at the University of Colorado, who fondly refers to her university as *Controversy University points out that CU has had a tough year:
…it’s been a pretty intense few years here: the #1 Party School school debacle, the Barnett football fiasco, the dead freshman at a frat house, and now the professor who invokes 9.11 to make his point.
In this post, she mentions that Ward Churchill and his security detail of actual Native Americans spoke on campus last night. Again, she points out failings at CU:
The university won’t protect girls who get raped, won’t appropriately deal with the football program, but they WILL try to expunge a divergent political voice. It’s sad, plain and simple.
Churchill Admits He’s Not Native American and attacks essay’s critics
http://starbulletin.com/2005/02/23/news/story2.html
Ward has seen the outside of the cave we all live in and those of us still in the cave looking at the shadows on the cave walls don’t like what we are seeing. The truth… no one knows the truth, but those who have tried to bring people out to see a different opinion that those we hear every day will be killed by those who are still in the cave of reality.
Ward is just another Brother Martin Luther King Jr, another Abe Lincoln, another who ever you want to name for being on the outside of the cave at the time of their death.
Why I’ll Probably Stick with the Cable Company
In case you haven’t heard, I hate the cable company.
However, there are reasons–that seem sensible to me–that I’ll probably stick with them, assuming they ever get my connection back up and running.
[...] Ward Churchill [...]
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