Posted on 04/04/2009 6:34:45 AM PDT by kellynla
At long last, I get it.
I was slow on the uptake, I admit, but have finally come around. For much of my life, you see, I labored under a great delusion. I thought public officials had a duty to speak out and rebuke someone in their ranks — or even a prominent constituent — who said something morally repellent.
If a prison warden professed indifference toward sexual abuse within his facility, or a college football coach was caught distributing racist or neo-Nazi propaganda, I assumed that elected officials should stand up and object — that they should climb upon a soapbox, if necessary, and start waving their arms.
And if a professor at a state university celebrated the mass murders of office workers and airline passengers while justifying more of the same, I thought it was obvious that elected leaders should voice their outrage, too.
Why, I even believed that those public officials were free — no, obligated — to state their belief that the warden had no business supervising prisoners, the coach had no business guiding young athletes, and the professor had no business teaching our children — and that they could say these things, moreover, without jeopardizing whatever due process those individuals were entitled to as public employees who might be determined to hold onto their jobs.
That's how ignorant I was.
I stand corrected, thanks to Ward Churchill's attorneys and the media apologists for this week's verdict in favor of the former University of Colorado professor. And I am most grateful for the education.
It turns out that the proper political response to vile statements by a public employee is ... silence — or, at most, a bland and ambivalent expression of discontent.
(Excerpt) Read more at denverpost.com ...
Their mistake was not that they fired him, but rather that they hired him.
Ward was an AA hire.
Correction: Ward was a fraudulent AA hire.
But he turned out to be a plain ol' white man from Illinois, the most basic example of the oppressor. He gamed their system then and it worked for him. He'll never go away.
From that viewpoint, he is like a supersized version of the ethnic based cookie prices exercise at some colleges.
Ward is a good thing in creating a teachable moment (eternity more like) for the folks who run CU! LOL
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