Posted on 08/21/2006 8:16:40 AM PDT by SJackson
But since Churchill was an America-hating radical, the university left – which claims to honor Indians – was ready to rally behind an Indian imposter because his views were politically correct.
But it's a different story when a real American Indian loves America, and publicly advocates patriotism. The radicals on campus can't stand that. An American Indian patriot is politically incorrect and dangerous. I found that out by personal experience. Once my views were known, I was never given tenure, was eventually dismissed from Oklahoma State University's Oklahoma City campus, and barred from coming on grounds.
The Association of American University Professors did not rush to my aid as it has to the Indian imposter Ward Churchil’s. There was no dramatic investigation into why I was fired. There were no public statements defending my freedom of speech, or my right to promote American patriotism. There was certainly no faculty petition drive in my defense.
But the Left was not content that I be driven from campus. Since I have continued to propound my patriotic views, the Left has decided to adopt a new tack to silence me: deny that I’m an Indian.
I'm the only conservative Indian in the media, but apparently that's one too many. So they have taken to saying I’m an adopted child, not the son of my Comanche mother, therefore not Comanche. But that lie failed, so now they're saying the Comanches have banished me from the tribe. Bald Beagle, one of the more sardonic anti-Yeagley blogs, announced that the Comanche Nation had officially banished me, July 28, 2006.
Any Comanche knew immediately that it was false.
There was no "tribal council" meeting in July. (There was a special session oin August 5, and the authoritative body is called the "General Council." It includes all Comanche Nation members, not a select group of elected officials.) And contrary to the Bald Eagle article, Mike Burgess is not the tribal chairman. He wasn't then, and after a run-off election August 19, he still isn't. The chairman is Wallace Coffey. (And, contrary to Bald Beagle, Wilma Mankiller, Tex Hall, Winona LaDuke and Ben Nighthorse Campbell have never visited the Comanche Nation headquarters as a body, and certainly not recently, and not about me or my alleged banishment.)
"Bald Beagle" is an obvious take-off on Bad Eagle, my official web site. That's the first sign of foolishness. There is no identification of who is behind Bald Beagle. The only identified author is Dr. Bald Beagle.
Yet the piece was immediately picked up by two other anti-Yeagley bloggers: Voice of a Native Son, and The Try-Works. Soon I was contacted by supporters of Bad Eagle anxiously inquiring about my banishment. Word gets around quickly in Indian country, even without the Internet.
I have not been banished. I don't know if the Comanche Nation has ever banished anyone, at least in modern times.
I note that Try-Works was created by John Moredock, a Churchill disciple. Also, Voice of a Native Son is obviously a take-off from the title of Churchill's book, From a Native Son. (In Leftist Indianism, "native son" is a code word for "not Indian," or "fake," like Churchill.) Churchill endorses both Try-Works and Native Son. I've certainly voiced critical opposition to Churchill, so, I should expect as much.
So the rumors of my "banishment" have been greatly exaggerated. And I am, in fact, applying for Churchill's job at the University of Colorado.
University of Oklahoma College of Liberal Studies.They devoted a college to studying liberals? That curriculum could be interesting. >:)
-Eric
Too many unemployed PhD's have turned the ivory tower into a squirrel ctge. One reason I got out.
It's a dual degree with the Department of Toxicology.
Bad Eagle need not be concerned about this crap. We all know who he is and what he stands for. When the academicians run with liars they just diminish their credibility even more.
All true about what we know, but the man's gotta make a living. I hope he gets the job in CO.
One of my best friends a Native American passed a year or so ago. I still miss him!
All I can say is "DON'T SMOKE, Watch uour weight and get checkups for blood pressure", we want you around to keep up the fight with the "Liberal Creeps."
True, and I hope he gets the job too.
I've never claimed to have been descended from Indians because my family's been here long enough to remember when we were on different sides.
None of this is surprising, since the Left believes that truth is relative, dependent on the race, background, politics, and personal history of the person telling the "truth." In that kind of Kafkaesque world, any statement can be "true" as long as the speaker thinks it is the "truth."
It makes me pine away for my father, who would have simply called leftists like the ones attacking this man as "slick sons of bitches."
I assume this is a joke but because I've seen this uttered in complete seriousness, I will remind the board that the term 'liberal studies' or 'liberal arts' has a meaning apart from the political.
And remember the first "liberals" were pro-capitalist, pro-individual and typically anti-statist. Basically, the antithesis of modern 'liberals' and leftists.
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