June 29, 2005

Actual Indian says fake Indian Ward Churchill more powerful than you think . . .

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According to an InsideHigherEd.com report, Indiana University law professor William C. Bradford has “riled up plenty of people in Indiana,” and Bradford himself says he’s heard he won’t get tenure and is “being punished for his unorthodox views” — especially, he says, for not supporting Ward Churchill, the controversial University of Colorado professor who wrote that the victims of the World Trade Center attacks were “little Eichmanns.” InsideHigherEd’s Scott Jaschik reports that Bradford, a Chiricahua Apache, says his refusal to sign a petition supporting Churchill has turned other profs against him. “The presumption was that I’ve got to sign this thing because I’m an Indian, but I can’t do that,” Bradford says. “I’m the anti-Ward Churchill. . . . If you can’t figure out that the architect of Nazi mass murder isn’t the same as people who went to work in the World Trade Center, you don’t belong teaching.”

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

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