The University of Colorado would like to hear from you on what you think of Ward Churchill. You know our opinion:

Fraud: Churchill has said at various times that he is either one-sixteenth or three-sixteenths Cherokee, yet genealogical reporting by the Rocky Mountain News and others has failed to turn up any Cherokee ancestors - or any other Native Americans - in Churchill’s family tree. Churchill has had plenty of reason to lie about his background which is considered the minimum for professorship. Churchill’s lack of conventional academic credentials was apparently compensated for, at least in part in the eyes of those who hired him at the University of Colorado, by the “fact” that he contributed to the ethnic diversity of the school’s tenure-track faculty. (Churchill also markets his art sales as “Native American.” It is doubtful he’d sell much by marketing it as Non-Native American Art).

More Fraud: Churchill fabricated a story about the U.S. Army intentionally creating a smallpox epidemic among the Mandan tribe in 1837, by simply inventing almost all of the story’s most crucial facts, and then attributing these “facts” to sources that say nothing of the kind.

Hate Monger: Churchill has published a paper comparing the people killed in the 9/11 attacks to the Nazi who helped plan the Holocaust. In Churchill’s essay titled “Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens,” Churchill called the workers killed in the WTC “little Eichmanns” after the Nazi Adolf Eichmann who helped mastermind the murder of European Jews during WWII.

Pro-terrorist: Churchill complemented the 9/11 terrorists for their commitment to their cause.

We could keep going but think you get the idea. If you are as disgusted as us by Mr. Churchill’s $94,000 taxpayer supported job then you might want to share your opinion with…

Philip P. DiStefano, Interim Chancellorchanchat@spot.colorado.edu

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