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What I find most interesting about the Ayers situation is his current situation as compared to people such as Leonard Peltier, Ward Churchill, and the rest of the Native American population.
Leonard Peltiers has been in jail for decades under a very questionable set of circumstances and a questionable trial. Peltier has been denied a new trial.
Ward Churchill from CU Boulder lost his job as a tenured professor due to a paper he wrote following the 9-11 attacks.
Churchill lost his job because of what he wrote and said.
Both Peltier and Churchill are Native Americans and obviously, Ayers is not.
The Native American population as a whole have suffered unimaginable horrors, degredation, loss, and yet their concerns and issues are seldom, if ever, mentioned. DC residents continue to cheer the "Redskins" sports teams.
For all the gratitudes and platituds which are given to those in history who have help build this country, it seems time that the entire non-Native American population recognize their lives and rights enjoyed in this country are a direct result of the loss of life, rights, and actions taken against the original citizens of the land which makes up this country.
