You Never Know What May Come Back To Haunt You
Rockadelic
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Especially in this day and age when your words online are there for everyone/anyone to read for eternity....I bet Ayers wishes he had a do-over.........the perfect storm of RFK's son being in a position to call him out 38 years later.
Bill Ayers denied emeritus status at UIC
Son of RFK ??? now U. of I. board chair ??? rips prof for dedicating book to his father???s assassin
When retiring University of Illinois at Chicago professor Bill Ayers co-wrote a book in 1973 [sic], it was dedicated in part to Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert F. Kennedy.
That came back to haunt Ayers when the U. of I. board, now chaired by Kennedy???s son, considered his request for emeritus status Thursday. It was denied in a unanimous vote.
Before the vote, an emotional Chris Kennedy spoke out against granting the status to Ayers.
???I intend to vote against conferring the honorific title of our university to a man whose body of work includes a book dedicated in part to the man who murdered my father, Robert F. Kennedy,??? he said.
???There is nothing more antithetical to the hopes for a university that is lively and yet civil, or to the hopes of our founding fathers for their great experiment of a self-governing people, than to permanently seal off debate with one???s opponents by killing them.???
Bill Ayers denied emeritus status at UIC
Son of RFK ??? now U. of I. board chair ??? rips prof for dedicating book to his father???s assassin
When retiring University of Illinois at Chicago professor Bill Ayers co-wrote a book in 1973 [sic], it was dedicated in part to Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert F. Kennedy.
That came back to haunt Ayers when the U. of I. board, now chaired by Kennedy???s son, considered his request for emeritus status Thursday. It was denied in a unanimous vote.
Before the vote, an emotional Chris Kennedy spoke out against granting the status to Ayers.
???I intend to vote against conferring the honorific title of our university to a man whose body of work includes a book dedicated in part to the man who murdered my father, Robert F. Kennedy,??? he said.
???There is nothing more antithetical to the hopes for a university that is lively and yet civil, or to the hopes of our founding fathers for their great experiment of a self-governing people, than to permanently seal off debate with one???s opponents by killing them.???
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It's so much easier today, just call them racist.
Or liberal.
It's a small victory for small people, though. This straw man has been burning for years now.
I can't blame Kennedy's kid for taking this one personally.
That's a little different from straw man burning.