Let’s examine what Bill Ayers’ office door looks like.
Yes, this is Bill Ayer’s office door.
No kidding.
I didn’t make this up.
Fortunately, I am not charged with the task of analyzing and summing up his office door up in one sentence. Jim Geraghty did it for me. He called it a “Where’s Waldo of lefty radicalism“. And I think he’s right.
I would describe the image as a Where’s Waldo of lefty radicalism. There’s at least three pictures of Malcolm X, a cartoon of a smiling police officer saying, “I’m going to kick your [tushie] and get away with it.” A Red Star, an Amnesty International sticker, a Mumia Abu-Jamal picture, a picture of a bomb dropping on the Gaza Strip.
Geraghty wasn’t sure what “ABU-ZAYD” was referring to, so he did the wise thing and asked readers if they knew what this means. He got answers:
A lot of readers are sending me information on Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, an Islamic theologan. But the more likely answer is found on another photo in that Tribune collection, where the caption depicts a young couple with a child between them: “Bill Ayers walks with wife, Bernardine Dohrn, and their son, Zayd Dohrn, 4, outside a federal courtroom in New York circa 1982.” Abu is Arabic for “father of.”
It does appear as though Bill Ayers’ politics hasn’t changed much since his Weather Underground days.