September 15, 2005

Ward Churchill: Still Clucking

John over at Marathon Pundit found this juicy little tidbit regarding everyone's favorite cigar store Indian, Ward Churchill:

Activist, Author and Scholar, Ward Churchill will be speaking at DePaul University. Famous for his involvemet in the American Indian Movement and his books like "Pacifism as Pathology" and the essay that ignited a firestorm of controversy last Spring "On the Justice of Roosting Chickens", Churchill will speak on human rights for people of color. This event is free and open to the public. Already the DePaul Campus republicans are talking about protesting the event. Boy, will they be outnumbered.

October 20th 5:30 pm Student Center room 314a (Student center located on sheffield and belden, one block south of the Fullerton El Stop)

Don't you dig the leftover hippie look? Tres chic!

Let's clear up a few things, shall we? Churchill may be an author, but he is no scholar. He's being investigated for plagiarism, and he can't even seem to create original "American Indian" artwork. He claims to be an American Indian himself, but that claim has come under fire by real Indians.

Pretty much the only truthful thing in the above paragraph is that he is an activist--an activist for those who despise America and all she stands for. Comparing the innocent victims of the 9/11 attacks to "little Eichmanns" (one of Hitler's henchmen) certainly made him a darling of the left. He must be making a lot more in speaker's fees than he earns as a professor at Colorado University, where he is still fighting to keep the job that pays him $96,000 per year. That's quite a nice chunk of cash for someone who despises capitalism...

(Did he ever get fired? His profile is still up on the university website, so it doesn't look like it.)

Ward Churchill is a third-rate hack posing as an American Indian posing as a university professor. He's not the only one of his kind, though...he just got a lot of publicity. There are plenty like him in academia--spouting their special brand of "blame America first" propaganda.