“...the great humanitarian William Ayres...”
Yeah... yeah, I remember that guy... full of love, compassion, and tolerance for everyone... wanted to “elevate” all of us... Used pyrotechnics to “elevate” a police station.
And hopefully, the change that initially changed the change, would, I hope, BE the change that change agents hoped for, in their hopeful fashion, of course...
Because, ultimately everything WE did prior sucked, and everything SINCE hope and change has been rainbows and Unicorns crapping Skittles... hopefully.
William was merely misunderstood! you see, to understand Ayres, one need only recognize him as the great educator history will record him to me.
Ayres taught us many things, but perhaps to understand him best, one need only view the iconic photo where he stands, suspended atop the filth ridden ground, supported, cradled in loving embrace of you will, by the flag of the country he so dearly and clearly loves.
That one photo sums up the man in a way I never could. I don’t think any of us could really. Because there are depth to him that we just cannot fathom. Fathomless depths where change forms and develops far out of the sight of mere men.
Ayres is something beyond their ken. A transformative personage and the embodiment of change.
For was it not he who brought us hope? Hope for change?
I do not think there is one of us here today that does not hope for change and lets be frank...Bill Ayres is the man most directly responsible for building within us, the hope for change. There in his living room, he changed a man. Perhaps a Kenyan man, perhaps an Indonesian man. Perhaps a Muslim man. And he CHANGED that man. He changed him into another man. The man we know today that brought the change developed in the bottomless fathoms of Ayres to America.
And so America was changed. And by extension, you, yes you!...now hope for change yourself.
Do you deny it? Do you deny the hope for change?
CLEARLY this entire board hopes for change.
And we owe it all to Bill Ayres.