Posted on 02/24/2005 12:20:49 AM PST by leaning_libertarian
Hawaiian newspaper misquotes Churchill
CU prof did not back away from Indian heritage claim
By Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News February 24, 2005
A dispute that erupted Wednesday over a published report that CU professor Ward Churchill was backing off his claims to Indian heritage ended when a Honolulu newspaper admitted it had misquoted him.
Ed Lynch, the city editor at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, said, "Unfortunately, our reporter made a mistake." He said the newspaper would run a retraction today.
Advertisement Click Here! The paper published a report Wednesday that said Churchill addressed the issue of his ethnicity in a talk Tuesday at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and admitted that he is not an American Indian.
In Wednesday's editions the Star-Bulletin quoted Churchill as asking, "Is he an Indian? Do we really care?" in referring to himself, according to the newspaper. "Let's cut to the chase. I am not."
But Wednesday night, Lynch said a review of a tape of the speech revealed that what Churchill said was, "Let's cut to the chase on that."
Churchill went on to say his pedigree is "not important" and that "the issue is the substance of what is said," the paper reported.
Churchill's true ethnicity has been a topic of public debate, as has his scholarship and his political beliefs, since late January, when a planned panel appearance by Churchill at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., drew protests because of his controversial essay on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens.
Churchill's next public appearance is set for Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He'll be speaking during Native Pride Week on the subject of "Racism Against the American Indian."
Let them put the tape online
Of course they want to correct the quote - because if he really said "I am not" - then he's a fraud and they can fire his blessed assurance!!
"Churchill went on to say that he is an associate member of the Keetoowah tribe and that associates are enrolled in the band after their genealogy has been vetted by the enrollment office. He said that he is less than one-quarter Indian, so he does not qualify to be a full member."
He's not an "Indian".
I know the Eastern and Western Bands of the Cherokee. They have slightly different membership requirements. My younger son, though descended from a Cherokee great-great-grandmother, is insufficiently "blooded" to join either Band. As I read the history, Churchill has NO Cherokee ancestors.
Congressman Billybob
That would be an outright lie.
Except that if his pedigree is false, it makes him a fraud and a gross hypocrite.
Is he saying this for the sake of pre-emptive damage control in case he is 'outed'?
....I'm less than 1/4 too!----so where's my $97,000 tenured professorship!
He's a charlatan!!
If anyone needs to be fired, it is he. Churchill is a startking example of what is teaching the kids at the University level. The university/education racket has long been taken over by world socialists , just as the PETA, Enviro ranks, and seeks to do every single thing it can, every day, to destroy the United States and then all of Western Civilization. Friends, the academe' racket is a cancer we all need to eradicate and replace before it replaces the United States with a World Rule of Soros and his Elite Council. Stop giving to universities until they PROVE allegiance to Western civilization and the United States. Folks, this is ONE cancer that will surely kill the nation starting with the children. Do not let the colorful robes, sage beards and glib talk intimidate you. Truly the Academe' is a case of the Emperor has NO clothes.
What a jerk. His pedigree is not important, but he has paradwd around as an agrieved American Idian all his life. Therefore fraudulantly assigning racism, depravation, and loss of cultural identity, as the purpose of his outrage. An outrage that is NOT personal. Amd threrfore based on that MAJOR ommission a FRAUD.
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