So why don't I Like Ward Churchill?
I was impressed to see Ron Zapollo from none other than FOX News give Ward Churchill an interview. I expect much less of Fox, though Zapallo has revealed he is more than a sports news expert teleprompter reader with great hair. A tele journalist who cares about the free flow of IDEAS? Lets hope for more.
But I was thinking about my own thoughts on Ward. Why don't I like him? Its not that he is so Unlike Ward Cleaver, Of beaver fame. I like Counter cultural people and the I ideas they bring. I listen to KGNU and their excellent broadcasts, many of which include such luminaries as Angela Davis, Howard Zinn and Studs Terkel. They have great stuff on KGNU!enlightening programs like the Bioneers, TUC radio and Its own paradigm challenging programs. Right on KGNU!
But back to Ward. Maybe its his demeanor. He seems like the arrogant type that would stiff you on a tip (the surest measure of ones character is ones ability to share, ask any server) and act like he received sub par service. Howard Zinn on the other hand, seems like the kind of person who would go to Dunkin Donuts, and leave his change in the tip jar, not even bothering to count it. Naom CHompsky seems like the sort of person who would tip $2 on a pizza but not much more. But I still like Naom in spite of his aloof demeanor. He seems to think everyone who has access to his lectures is an ivy league graduate who has fondness for Beethoven's later sonatas. I say Bach played by Edgar Meyer kicks Beethoven's ass, but we all like the ninth.
But I digress. On Ward Churchill I can only guess its because he strikes me as an insincere bully who likes to be mad at the establishment all the time and was only hired to lure young easily impressed idealists to boulder, keeping tuition up and giving them plenty of money for other programs. Like Space and science and stuff with better dividends than justice.
Or perhaps I am the prick. Perhaps I am selfish and so focused on my own struggles I do not have a rats ass left to contribute to some guy in Boulder who cares more deeply for the struggles of Indigenous people than I will ever know. I just hope he realizes that the $90 thousand he makes a year is not small change to any of the working people of Colorado, my native home.
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