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University of Colorado Ethnic Studies professor and anti-American firebrand Ward Churchill and 70s Kung-fu expert and counterculture icon Billy Jack discuss free speech and the pitfalls of being a pseudo-Indian in America today

image “200 professors at CU have stood up, Billy.  They’ve stood up and been counted and have made clear that they recognize that this whole controversy has never been about anything other than an attempt to chill speech that is unpopular with the criminal right-wing establisment and its soulless lackeys.  To try to make this about anything else—my heritage, my scholarship, my art—is yet further proof of the systemic undermining of reasoned dissent in this country by a collection of corporate-run fascists.”*
image “Exactly!  And as if we fake Indians need any more reason to express our indignance toward a government that slaughtered our fake ancestors.”*

22 Replies to “University of Colorado Ethnic Studies professor and anti-American firebrand Ward Churchill and 70s Kung-fu expert and counterculture icon Billy Jack discuss free speech and the pitfalls of being a pseudo-Indian in America today”

  1. Lebnick says:

    What happened to the original “2000 professors at CU”? Because, you know, numbers are a totally arbitrary Western construct, forced on our fake ancestors by those who would count our mangled corpses. &c.

  2. Salt Lick says:

    Hey Ward, did you hear about the Indian that dreamed one night he was a tipi and the next night he was a wigwam?  His psychiatrist said, “You’re problem is you’re two tents.”

    Ba-da-dump.

  3. David says:

    Billy Jack: As a psuedo Indian who is so far white that I am almost red, how should I move so they don’t see me coming?

    Wardo: Not a reason in the world that I can see.  In practical reasons, do you know how?  I mean, you really haven’t shown up in any movies.  You are obscure as I was.  So the little Eichmann’s on Wall Street won’t see you coming.  Take off your pseudo-Indian suit, no kung-fu, sharve your head (oh, never mind), kay? You don’t send the girls in to do an action, kay?  You don’t send in the psuedo Indians to do an action, kay?  Shave, put on a bankers suit, and walk on down.

  4. Bi(polar)_Man says:

    Hey, I just thought of something.. If the Fake Indians are fake.. and their ancestors are fake.. then the cavalry and cowboys and settlers that fake battled them must be fake too.. So maybe none of that that Wounded Knee.. Cherokee Nation, Custer’s Last Stand, Sitting Bull stuff ever really happened.. maybe it was all just a fake story started by a handful of fake small business entrepeneurs that were sitting on a load of plastic hatchets and buckskin shoes they wanted to move in stands along the highway.. Or maybe fake La Familia types that wanted to branch out into Casinos and fireworks.. but in any event, maybe they just made up the whole fake thing and it spun out of control and took on a fake life of its own. Ya think?

    Witness the fact that in the Hollywood movies the Indians are played by non-Indians. Why ? Because there really arent any real Indians.. just actors paid to play Indians .. Then of course the DNC keeps a whole load of fake Indians actors employed to walk around major cities and reinforce the idea that Indians are real.. thus allowing the DNC to make up thousands and thousands of fake Indian names to register as fake Democrats..

    It’s all so obvious now…

    -BPM

    Turing Word: Western

    See? that confirms my suspicion …

  5. Joshua Scholar says:

    Bi(polar)_Man I finally got to ask, where does this “Turing word” stuff come from?  What’s a “Turing word”?

  6. Bi(polar)_In_Seattle says:

    hahahaa I don’t know… at least I dont know the history of it.. but I saw it on the bottom of someone else’s post and just liked it..

    I have no idea if ‘Turing’ is a real word or not.. I’ve also seen it referred to as the ‘Spam Word’.. so I assume it’s the spam killer key word that you type in to enter a post..

    I dont know what if any significance it has.. Maybe someone can fill us both in.

    -BP_In_Seattle

    Spam Word: had

  7. JWebb says:

    Turing is what you do in an RV in the deep south.

  8. BLT in CO says:

    Good explanation of the (Alan) Turing test: *

    It has the added benefit of using a funny Turing test phrase as an example:

    “Time flies like an arrow.  Fruit flies like a banana.” —Groucho Marx

  9. JWebb says:

    The closest Churchill got to being a real Indian was when he got caught outside the CU stadium scalping tickets.

  10. gail says:

    Alan Turing was one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence. He came up with a test called the Turing test that lets an interviewer determine if his (hidden) subject is a machine.

    Here’s a more detailed explanation of the Turing test.

  11. Ian Wood says:

    Christ, hasn’t he conducted his martyrdom operation against a Starbuck’s yet?

    Goddamn hippy.

  12. Joshua Scholar says:

    Vershluginner word: Vorpal tongue laugh

  13. Joshua Scholar says:

    I guarantee that this is the first time in the history of the universe that the following sentence has ever been typed:

    “I misspelled the word fersluginner.”

  14. Joshua Scholar says:

    Especially since I misspelled it the second time too.

    The laptop has been drinking,

    my cellphone is asleep

    And the combo went back to Seattle,

    the ipod has to take a leak

    And the carpet needs a haircut,

    and the spotlight looks like a prison break

    And the telephone’s out of cigarettes,

    and the balcony is on the make

    And the laptop has been drinking,

    the laptop has been drinking (not me)…

    – (the <s>Piano</s>laptop has been drinking )Tom Waits if he’d been a cafe nerd

  15. Bi(polar)_In_Seattle says:

    Thanks guys.. ! That ‘Turing’ stuff was interesting.. can one of you now please explain Quantum Mechanics and QED in 6th grade level English so I can understand ? All I’ve been able to make out in my studies so far is that there was some German Jewish guy that said something about a dead cat in a box that wasnt dead but was and a tree falling in the forest that made no sound.. or was it a bear sh*tting in the woods that made no smell.. it was something like that.. but the rest was all Greek to me..

    -BPiS

    Turing word: groups

    I guess that was a machine that said that.. Am I right?

  16. Uncle Squid says:

    I can’t really help you with the QM stuff, but I can give you the theory of relativity in words of four letters or fewer.

    Turing word: small – as in small words.  Words smaller than the word small, in fact.

  17. gail says:

    Bipolar, this is a good intro to QM for nonmath people like me:

    http://newton.ex.ac.uk/research/qsystems/people/jenkins/mbody/mbody2.html

  18. Bi(polar)_In_Seattle says:

    Gail,

    Here’s any even more plain language site;

    A Quantum of Common Sense

    Actually, I was a math/physics geek back in the Dark Ages of the 1970’s.. We actually owned slide rules and basic math calculators were a couple hundred bucks (which equals about $500 in 2005 dollars). QM, QED and Topology all fascinate me though I’m not real well versed in any of it.. just interested.

    I was just being a dork as usual..

    But would I still be a dork if no one read my dorky posts ? Chew on that one for a while…

    BPiS

    Alan Turing Test Word: hair

    That was a person.. I’m sure.

  19. bigbooner says:

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  20. david says:

    Thanks all for the easy physics links.  I actually learned something today for a change.  The only physics I really know well is Newtonian mechanics.  That’s all engineers need to know.

  21. Bi(polar)_Man says:

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    -BPiS

    Alan Turing Word: voice

    Thats something a machine would say.. Final answer.. its a machine. Did I win?

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    Is the glass half full or half empty ?

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