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Originally Posted by Goggles Pizano
I wonder if any Native Americans back the hate filled ramblings of this idiot who claims to be one of them? My guess is they refuse to bring shame upon the tribe.
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The A.I.M. (American Indian movement) has taken up a position of support with Churchill, of which Russell Means is still very active with. (Don't know if he's still president of AIM, or just what his position is with them, but he still very active with the group).
Here's something from The
Rocky Mountain News (this story is getting A LOT of air time and press around here). I love how some of Churchill, and some of his supporters respond to criticism and voice their opinions.
Yep....these are the professors that are teaching the youth of America today.
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Churchill, protesters vow fight is not over
By John Ensslin, Rocky Mountain News
July 24, 2007
BOULDER - Moments after the University of Colorado Regents voted to fire Ward Churchill, one of his supporters at the back of the Glenn Miller Ballroom shouted out, "Now it’s your turn!"
"You’re right," Churchill replied just before joining in with several American Indians from South Dakota as they started drumming and chanting the freedom song from the American Indian Movement.
Several of Churchill’s supporters decried the regents’ statements that they were dismissing him for a pattern of academic misconduct.
"I want to be clear," said Tom Mayer, a CU-Boulder sociology professor. "This is a political firing with academic camoflage.
"I believe the people who voted (to dismiss Churchill) are the same people who would have voted against Socrates, Galileo ... and anyone else wth an unpopular point of view." Riiiiiight......'Ol Professor Tom sure knows his history of Galileo and Socrates.
Lane said the only surprise of the afternoon was Regent Cindy Carlisle’s lone dissenting vote against the motion to fire Churchill.
"The only surprise to me was that it took as long as it did and we got one vote," Lane told reporters. "I’m always surprised when somebody stands up and does the right thing."
About 100 supporters had sat at the back of the ballroom waiting for the regent’s decision. Some stood for more than two hours holding signs that read "Reinstate Ward Churchill" and "The Student’s Vote: Ward Churchill - Best Professor 2005."
Phil Weinstein, a research assistant in the CU Civil Engineering department, help up a sign that read, "Honor Dissent."
"We’re only asking the questions that are not allowed to be answered in polite American discourse," Weinstein said outside the student center earlier in the afternoon. "The university should be protecting Ward Churchill’s free speech, not purging him."
Churchill walked up to the University Memorial Center around 3:30 p.m., carrying two long poles that were never used during the rally.
Lane joked, "Ward is polling the regents."
While waiting to get into the center, Churchill traded jibes with one man who snapped pictures of him and asked, "I heard you were a fake Indian!"
"I heard you had no brain and you were still looking for it," Churchill shot back. Way to bolster support for yourself there, Ward,
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