February 02, 2005

Finding Churchill

http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/02/02/speaker.protest.ap/index.html


University faculty defends controversial professor
Wednesday, February 2, 2005 Posted: 11:52 AM EST (1652
GMT)
BOULDER, Colorado (AP) -- As pressure mounts on a University of Colorado professor who ignited a furor by comparing the World Trade Center victims to Nazis, colleagues have come to his defense -- on free speech grounds.

Normally, Jibbenainosay wouldn't intervene in such a fine hoopla as this, but he feels the urge to point something out. Nowhere in the three CNN front-page articles about Ward Churchill's controversial statements respecting 9/11 and consequent resignation from his chairship is it mentioned that Churchill is one of the leading scholars of Native America. Where do these looney ideas about "U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality" that, according to Governor Bill Owens, defy the facts of history, come from, CNN readers are wondering? How did somebody writing books about U.S. imperialism end up as chair of an Ethnic Studies department?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0872863239/qid=1107382180/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/102-0314228-8697758?v=glance&s=books

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