Posted on 02/24/2005 9:12:26 AM PST by freespirited
In the days following the slaughter of 3,000 human beings on Sept. 11 by followers of Osama bin Laden, after a huge hole was ripped in the fabric of all that is considered humane and decent, University of Hawaii Hawaiian Studies Professor Haunani-Kay Trask ignored the grief of an entire nation and coldly parroted the comment of Malcolm X after President John F. Kennedy was killed: “Chickens have come home to roost.”
This week, Trask was the lead cheerleader for University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill, a man she introduced at a press conference as a “comrade” whom she has known for many years. Churchill’s 15 seconds of fame stems from a hate-America essay written in 2001 entitled, Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens.
Churchill mimics Trask and Trask mimics Malcolm X on the chicken theme, but who are the real chickens here?
Comrades Trask and Churchill apparently feel that capitalists should support their diatribe against capitalism and the very America that guarantees free speech. U.H. Professors, such as American Studies Assistant Professor Robert Perkinson, who organized Churchill’s visit, promote anti-American, anti-capitalism propaganda while collecting their upper-middle class paychecks made possible by their students’ capitalist parents, student labor, corporate sponsorship and taxpayer dollars.
Perkinson, who teaches courses such as American Empire, World War II in America and Hawaii and Slavery and Unfree Labor, published an op-ed against America in the Jordan Times last year entitled Practices that Demand Scrutiny, which was carried by Al-Jazeerah.
Both Perkinson and Churchill are signatories of a Dec. 2, 1999, statement advocating violence against the World Trade Organization in 1999, identifying themselves as “We - the broad Left, anti-corporate, pro-livable world community.”
These unequivocal statements follow, “Adherents to ‘non-violent’ protest methods preach against targeting corporate property. We feel that this is an uncritical acceptance of the dominant value system of American consumer society: private property has a higher value than life. At this time, we feel that we, as activists, need to debate these issues further among ourselves.”
A Feb. 21 press release from Frank McPherson, president of the Hawaii American Studies Association, confirms that its organization requested funding from the Student Equity, Excellence and Diversity (SEED) grant to bring Ward Churchill to speak at U.H. The U.H. SEED office confirmed that its organization granted the request for $1,000. SEED receives a $100,000 general funds appropriation each year.
Taxpayers of Hawaii must decide if they condone the University’s use of their money to harbor and encourage those who advocate violence.
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2004%20opinions/June/2o/Practices%20that%20demand%20scrutiny,%20Robert%20Perkinson.htm
http://www.urban75.com/Action/seattle8.html
Laura Brown is the education reporter and researcher for HawaiiReporter.com and the education policy analyst for the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii. She can be reached via email at mailto:laurabrown@hawaii.rr.com
Ward Churchill, wannabe Indian, wannabe intellectual, wannabe a celebrity
By signing the Hans Hoppe victory petition, we can defend the academic freedom of conservatives and libertarian professors who are fighting back against PC administrators.
Hoppe is the economics professor at UNLV who was "disciplined" by administrators because he said that gays were less likely to save money. He is fighting back. Let's help him.
anybody ever seen ward churchill AND janet reno at the same time at the same place? seperated at birth perhaps?
And,sadly,he will probabably end up being a very successful book author. There HAS to be a book coming,there just has to be.
Why are these professors not in jail for not only inciting violence, but actively participating in it? Why does Churchill still get a paycheck from the taxpayers of CO when he instructed terrorists in how to make bombs? Are university presidents nuts, or just "comrades"?
It's time we cut of the ferterli$er to SEED.
Anti-capitalist Marxists, like Trash and Chorkill, are malcontented parasites. American citizens are free to express dissent and to criticize our government because true citizens are loyal and protective watchdogs.
Advocating proMarxist totalitarian "ideals" as an antedote for free enterprise and the vast middle-class prosperity enabled by a capitalism-based economy is totally illogical and counterproductive, if not totally hilarious.
Without a struggling American "labour class" to rally to revolutionary fever, Marxists want to infect youth with delusional anti-social concepts because youths are impressionable idealistic willing fools.
Our government and judicial systems only prove imperfect and unjust because of human factors: when those we elect and appoint betray our founding precepts and principles.
I heard about this case, quite obscene what UNLV is trying to do. Interestingly though, the ACLU is on the right side on this one.
"And,sadly,he will probabably end up being a very successful book author. There HAS to be a book coming,there just has to be."
Or Churchill will star in a documentary directed by Michael Moore. Kindred...
Exposing 'Chicken' University of Hawaii Professors
to reveal Ward Churchill's......'indian'....'DNA'?
Bump!
"Why are these professors not in jail for not only inciting violence, but actively participating in it? Why does Churchill still get a paycheck from the taxpayers of CO when he instructed terrorists in how to make bombs? Are university presidents nuts, or just "comrades"?"
"...paycheck from the taxpayers" ...and bonuses from the leftist lecture league, with serenades from Belafonte.
Like vultures, "comrades" flock and prey together - it's called "solidarity". Their talons have a voracious hold on capitalist-funded entities like colleges and universities. Evidently, they "idealize" a Marxist utopia where they can be willing vassals of the absolute-power state - the ubiquitous government they expect to indulge them...that is, until the next wave of purges hit, of course. While they are very sensitive to being the objects of criticism and "witch hunts," they seem oblivious to the infamous communist tradition of purges in Soviet Russia and Red China.
I say take these academic neoMarxists and put them behind a plow! Marxist socialism is the opiate of Academia.
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