DENVER- Ward Churchill’s saga is bigger than the persecution of a scholar who defies the master narrative, bigger than Native American contentions over how their victor writes its history, bigger than America’s First Amendment Freedom of Speech, it’s WHAT HE SAID.

We can fantasize that the American psyche is sophisticated enough to care about what is written of its history. I’m not sure Americans care what’s in their rear view mirror as long as the Drive Thru is still open. But put a swastika on our Red White and Blue…

The story today is a professor exonerated, accusers rebuked, and American civil liberties protected. It’s even fashionable to say you agree with what Churchill wrote in his 9/11 essay, like it was history.

You can say you agree, but try to say it.