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“This so-called ‘investigation’ into my heritage and scholarship is nothing but a transparent broadside against my character—payback by the white academic establishment for my having spent years stripping the hides off America’s convenient narratives to lay bare the stark colonialist skeletons underneath. I am who my grandmother said I was, and no sham committee’s ‘findings’ can change that.”* | |
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“I hear you, brother. When I was a kid, my grandmother told me I could grow up to be whatever I wanted to be. And though I doubt she’d have expected me to choose ‘half-breed, desert-dwelling martial arts expert who protects hippie communes from the encroachment of the Man,’ in all fairness, the old gal didn’t live long enough to see just how freakin’ cool I look in the hat, God rest her soul.”* |
His entrances are so melodramatic/theatrical he really should have a theme song but I’m stumped. Any ideas?
And am I supposed to be mad at you until tomorrow because y’all killed Jesus? Because I don’t really know any Romans, unless you could recommend one.
Ward: “.. and my Grandmother told me I am a direct descendent of the Great Chief ‘Sitting Sven’ of the Vanersborg Cherokee tribe.. and I have no reason to doubt her word..
The authorities said seven months for the next committee review and then onto another tenure committee review, which, all in all may take up to two years to complete. Isn’t that conveniently the amount of time left on Churchill’s contract? In the meantime, how much more damage will be done to the institution?
Scott, there’s that greeter at Caeser’s Palace you could try… or Russell Crowe might be available.. or Malcolm McDowell.. Those are about as close as I can come up with.. Oh, hey, the Popes Roman.. how bout him ?
Ah, but the Pope’s Polish, AB, though I could work up a good temporary hatred for the Caesar’s guy.
Russell Crowe already has permanent “ignore” staus in my cynical little world.
…in all fairness, the old gal didn’t live long enough to see just how freakin’ cool I look in the hat…
Actually, it looks like he might be smuggling a bundt cake under that thing.
<i>Conundrum for the interested or bored;
Is Ward CU or is CU a ward?
mmmmm, bundt cake. my husband made one for my birthday that was sooooo tasty, it was chocolate with coffee icing.
So how is that if some working stiff like me wants to claim he’s Native American for the sake of getting some government benefit, he has to document that he’s substantially of Indian heritage.. but Ward C. waltzes in with his laughable “How Paleface.. me heap big descendent of brave Indian Nation “ act.. and it’s like CU falls all over themselves to embrace him.. even give him his own department.. Hell, theyve done more to make him an Indian through their acceptance of his story than he ever did for himself. Now it looks like theyre going to run out the clock and let him leave, reputation (such as it is) intact.. I wonder why the Indians themselves havent strung this guy up like A Man Called Horse.. ?
Maggie.. did he keep it hidden in his Sitting Bull hat until the party ?
ScottP.. I just flashed on a great idea.. I read a quote someplace where Ward C. claimed he is 1/64th Roman on his mother’s side.. and a direct descendent of the guard with the whip on Gologotha.. (direct descendent mitochondrial DNA’wise that is)..
Maybe you could vent your righteous rage on him !You’d be pretty safe from prosecution because Ward would have to prove he’s an Indian before he could cry ‘Hate Crime!’..
I say we buy Ward a t-shirt reading, “My grandmother said when I grew up, I could be whatever I wanted. So I became an asshole.”
Easy answer, AB. CU is and was completely incompetent.
And to top it off, Ethnic Studies is inherently fraudulent. Ward Churchill is the perfect Ethnic Studies professor.
Another RMN article describing the dramatic entry of the country’s most obnoxious perfesser…
Jeff. Are you writing for the RMN? The melodrama is intoxicating.
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