[Peace-discuss] News Gazette Comment on Wise {sic!}
Carl G. Estabrook
galliher at illinois.edu
Sun Mar 12 15:38:44 UTC 2017
Of course you know as well as I do, Francis, that purgatory is not for rot but for reform. Regards, CGE
> On Mar 12, 2017, at 10:30 AM, Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu> wrote:
>
> Well to some extent you are right Carl. The only principled Chancellor they have had here in recent memory is Nancy Kantor. And they fired her because of her opposition to Chief Illiniwak. Which brings me back to Wise {sic!} illegally firing Salaita because he is Palestinian and would teach Native American Studies. Wise {sic!} has to assume the responsibility for what she did to him, his wife, their baby and their entire Family: illegally throwing them out into the street with no visible means of support. She knowingly walked into the notorious and pervasive bigotry and racism of this Institution.
> Let Wise {sic!} rot in purgatory! Fab.
>
> 78.
>
> The Racist Mascot: Why You Should Still Boo Illinois
>
> The self-styled "Fighting Illini" of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are on their way to the Jan. 1, 2008 Rose Bowl with their racist and genocidal mascot and symbol Chief Illiniwak still in tow. Although the NCAA forced the University of Illiniwaks to prevent this Little Red Sambo from desecrating at half-times everything American Indians hold dear and treasure, nevertheless Chief Illiniwak still remains the officially designated "honored symbol" of the University of Illiniwaks at Urbana-Champaign. Just recently the University of Illiniwaks resurrected Chief Illiniwak for their Fall 2007 Homecoming in order to better milk their Alumni/ae as part of their newly launched Capital Campaign, thus definitively proving their craven racism. In his Year 501: The Conquest Continues (1993) Noam Chomsky suggests an apt metaphor for such American Indian sports mascots and symbols that I will elaborate upon here in order to conform to our local and most peculiar rites on this campus:
>
> Suppose the Nazis had won the Second World War. Sixty years later, a prestigious German state university has a mascot for all of its sports teams and sports fans by the name of "The Rabbi." Basically what happens is that a student from the Hitler Youth League dresses up in an authentic costume for an Hasidic Rabbi, complete with the curl-locks and a beard. The University itself collectively call themselves "The Fighting Jews," and the school's band is called "The Marching Jews." The student newspaper is called "The Daily Jew." All the sports fans in town wear jackets and t-shirts with pictures of The Rabbi prominently displayed on them. And most cars have Rabbi stickers planted all over them. Three years ago the University's Board of Trustees ran out of town on a rail a courageous and principled Chancellor who had the temerity to publicly suggest that the time had now come to "retire" the Rabbi. So of course there was a heated campaign on among the students and alumni to "Save the Rabbi!"
>
> This German state university plays its soccer matches over at the Nuremberg Stadium in front of an audience of about 75,000 White Aryans, almost all of whom are wearing pro-Rabbi images and clothes. At half-time the Marching Jews take to the stadium floor and begin playing what they purport to be Jewish sounding music along the lines of Fiddler-on-the-Roof. Then all 75,000 White Aryans rise as one and shout in unison: "Rabbi! Rabbi! Rabbi! Rabbi!" gesticulating wildly and working themselves up into a feeding frenzy. One lone faculty member sits there in protest shouting "Racist Rabbi!" and everyone in the vicinity proceeds to throw garbage at him.1
>
> Finally, the moment these ardent White Aryans have all waited for has arrived. The Rabbi runs out onto the arena floor from among the Marching Jews, proceeds to the center of the Nuremberg Stadium, and dances the Hava Nagila while the Marching Jews play on and march into an intricately choreographed maneuver that they all brag about and take special pride in that culminates with the band being organized into a Swastika. So the Rabbi continues to dance the Hava Nagila while the Marching Jews march themselves into a Swastika. By now all 75,000 White Aryans are hysterical, shouting, screaming and yelling: "Rabbi! Rabbi! Rabbi!" This semi-religious spectacle that the Nazis are well known for staging, especially at the Nuremberg stadium, goes on for a good twenty minutes. It all concludes with everyone joining hands to sing "Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles," with the Rabbi leading all 75,000 White Aryans in the song. Then the Rabbi proceeds to dance the Hava Nagila out of the stadium followed by the Marching Jews. Everyone goes wild, clapping and cheering. This Rabbi ceremony brings tears to the eyes of many drunken alumni and students who had started several hours beforehand getting inebriated on schnapps and good German beer at pre-game tailgate parties.
>
> When it is all over, a visiting law professor from another country asks his host at the soccer match what this spectacle was all about. Without missing a beat Dean Mengele of the Law School turns to his guest and says: "We are honoring the Jews." Whom the Nazis had just exterminated 60 years ago, so of course the memory of the Jews needs to be honored by this spectacle. The Illiniwek Indians were ethnically cleansed out of Illinois about a century before that. These are the real "Little Eichmans." Be sure to "Boo!" and root against the Illiniwaks.
>
> Historically, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, its Boards of Trustees, its Presidents, its Chancellors, its Provosts, its Deans, Directors and Department Heads, and most of its Faculty and Alumni/ae have always been the Ku Klux Klan dressed up in Caps and Gowns instead of Hoods and Sheets.
>
> 79.
>
> The Chief Illiniwak Spectacle!
>
> So here we are at Memorial Stadium on a beautiful Fall Saturday afternoon during the Michigan-Illiniwak Football Game. There are 77,000 drunken fans here and the game is covered nationwide and live by CBS TV. For the drunken fans on the radio, Jim Turpin of the News-Gazoo/ WDWS Illiniwak Media Empire attempts and fumbles the play-by-play calls. It is half-time. Time for the Chief Illiniwak Spectacle. So here goes:
>
> 1. The Marching Illiniwak Drum/Dumb Corps take the field at Memorial stadium and proceed to strike up the special Illiniwak drumbeat that I had previously composed for them, all saying in unison over the gigantic stadium sound speaker system:
>
> Dumb! Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!
> Dumb! Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!
>
> This special dumb-beat continues ad nauseam throughout the performance.
>
> 2. Now, out comes the rest of the University of Illiniwak's "Marching Illiniwak" band and strikes up the music for the famous pop song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by The Tokens.
>
> 3. Then, out comes the University of Illiniwak's Glee Club and sings my song "The Chancellor Sleeps Tonight" over a special microphone/amplification system fed through the gigantic stadium speakers so that everyone can hear the magnificent lyrics:
>
> The Chancellor Sleeps Tonight
>
> Hush my Illiniwaks, my little Illiniwaks, the Chancellor Sleeps Tonight! Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
> Hush my Illiniwaks, my quiet Illiniwaks, the Chancellor Sleeps Tonight! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!
> Illiniwak, Illiniwak, Illiniwak, Illiniwak, Illiniwak,Illiniwak,Illiniwak. Illiniwak, Illiniwak
> Illiniwak, Illiniwak, Illiniwak, Illiniwak,Illiniwak,Illiniwak. Illiniwak,
> Oh! Bee Wah do do do do ay.
> Oh! Bee Wah doo doo doo doo ayy!
> The Mighty Chancellor Sleeps Tonight!
> Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!
>
> The Glee Club repeats these lyrics ad nauseam throughout the Chief Illiniwak Spectacle!
>
> 4. Next the Marching Illiniwaks execute their famous "Three-in-One"
> Illiniwak March.
>
> 5. Now the most electrifying moment in sports history: Little Red Sambo Himself, Chief Illiniwak, runs through the band, pops out, and does his little Hollywood jig at mid-field.
>
> 6. Finally, all 77,000 people in the stadium begin to chant in unison and in time with the band and the Glee Club, adding in for emphasis, support, and of course dignity:
>
> Illiniwak, Illiniwak, Illiniwak, Illiniwak, Illiniwak,Illiniwak,Illiniwak, Illiniwak, Illiniwak, Illiniwak, Illiniwak, Illiniwak, Illiniwak,Illiniwak,Illiniwak,Illiniwak, Illiniwak, Illiniwak, Illiniwak, Illiniwak, Illiniwak,Illiniwak,Illiniwak, Illiniwak
>
> Repeated ad nauseam.
>
> This magnificent "Chief Illiniwak Spectacle" will of course be shown nation-wide to an audience of tens of millions of football fans and admirers of our "flagship" State University in the Great State of Illiniwaks. The University of Illiniwaks at Urbana-Champaign! Home of the the Marching Illiniwaks Band and their Official Mascot, Chief Illiniwak, Little Red Sambo Himself. Certainly the type of University you want to send your children to--unless they are Native American, African American, Asian American, or Latino/a.
>
> 80.
>
> Doctor Illiniwak, M.D.
>
> Got a note
> From a Doctor
> MD not PHD
> Saying he was just like me
>
> Illinois BS
> U Chicago Med
> Harvard Public Health
>
> He was so irate
> Against me for Chief Illiniwak
> That he told the Prez
> Of his beloved Alma Mater
> That he would not give a dime
> So long as I taught here
>
> Just like me?
> A sick puppy
> Pathetic Physician
> Typical Illinois BS
>
> Cult of Chief Illiniwak
> Brainwashing kids
> To become Die-hard bigots and racists
> For the rest of their lives
> I pity his patients
> Dr. Illiniwak needs a Shrink!
>
> 81.
>
> Salaita1
>
> Now all the bigots and racists against Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims
> And the Academic Fascists
> Come out of the Closet
> For everyone to see
> Under the Guise of Civility
> These Academic Emperors wear no clothes
>
> Shooting themselves in the feet every day
> Could not happen to a nicer group
> Of Academic Schmucks
> Cowards and Hypocrites all
> What else is new?
> Such is life
> In the Sordid World of Academia
>
> Academic Freedom? LOL!
> Academic Integrity? LOL!
> Academic Tenure? LOL!
> First Amendment Rights? LOL!
>
> All balderdash and propaganda
> For the gullible to believe
> And the naïve
> Take it from me
> Been fighting them since 1968
> When I started at U of C
> 49 Years of Struggle
> Still standing and fighting
> But it ain’t been easy
> Truth and Justice
> Against Power and Lies and Hypocrisy
>
> Poor Salaita
> Got his legs cut out from under him
> Norman Finkelstein too
> Many others three
> Not much I can do
> But saved a few
> Trying to protect my own back
> With all the Knives sticking out of it
> While marching forward
> Towards Truth and Justice
>
> As my Dad the litigator always said:
> Son, there’s nothing fair about life
> Ditto and in spades for Academia
>
> Bootlicking goes a long way
> Ass-kissing too
> Merit has little to do with it
> Mediocrity rises to the top
> The Peter Principle vindicated
> By the Academic World
>
> 82.
>
> The Principles on Which We Stand at the University of Illiniwaks1
>
> The Principles on Which We Stand
> At the University of Illiniwaks:
> The Cult of Chief Illiniwak
> Long Live Chief Illiniwak!
> Our Official Honored and Revered Symbol
> For the University of Illiniwaks
> And Illiniwaks all over the world!
>
> Illiniwak Pride!
> Illiniwak Fever!
> The Daily Illiniwak
> Illiniwaks Yearbooks
>
> Illiniwaks Homecoming
> Our Redskin Tradition
> Eagle Feathers too
>
> Illiniwak Stadium
> Our Illiniwakettes
> Our Fighting Illiniwaks
> Illiniwak Cheerleaders
>
> Our Marching Illiniwaks Band
> Our Famous 3 in 1 Illiniwak Spectacle
> Dumb! Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!
> Oskee! Bow! Wow!
>
> Just Honoring American Indians
> Not demeaning anyone
> Nor meaning them too
> All very civil
> How White of us all!
>
> The University of Illiniwaks
> Dumb! Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!
> Racists to boot
> Genocidaires too
>
> So very educational
> Cult of Chief Illiniwak
> Anthro 101
> A required course
> To get our degrees
> From the University of Illiniwaks
> Oskee! Bow! Wow! Forever!
>
>
>
>
> Francis A. Boyle
> Law Building
> 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
> Champaign, IL 61820 USA
> 217-333-7954 (phone)
> 217-244-1478 (fax)
> (personal comments only)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl G. Estabrook [mailto:galliher at illinois.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2017 10:08 AM
> To: Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>
> Cc: Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu>; peace-discuss at anti-war.net; C. G. ESTABROOK <carl at newsfromneptune.com>; Jay Becker <futureup2us at gmail.com>; Wise, Phyllis M <pmwise at illinois.edu>; a-fields at uiuc.edu; Hoffman, Valerie J <vhoffman at illinois.edu>; Joe Lauria <joelauria at gmail.com>; Miller, Joseph Thomas <jtmiller at illinois.edu>; Szoke, Ron <r-szoke at illinois.edu>; Dave Trippel <davetrippel at ameritech.net>; Arlene Hickory <a23h23 at yahoo.com>; David Swanson <davidcnswanson at gmail.com>; peace-discuss-request at lists.chambana.net; sherwoodross10 at gmail.com; abass10 at gmail.com; mickalideh at gmail.com; Lina Thorne <lina at worldcantwait.net>; chicago at worldcantwait.net
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] News Gazette Comment on Wise {sic!}
>
> The problem is not with individuals, either university chancellors or US presidents. And can’t be cured by changing them.
>
> "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
>
> Bring the troops home. Free education, healthcare, social supports, etc.
>
>
>> On Mar 12, 2017, at 9:47 AM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>>
>> Francis
>>
>> I just read the letter published in the NG, of which you refer. I now offer my thoughts in my morning rant:
>>
>> Self serving, self promoting and using Wise as his reason to do so. Such slobbering adoration of “celebrities” maybe what has brought us to this brink of extinction of which we battle daily. With the likes of the mindless robots like Wise populating our government and academia, being rewarded with profit and stardom while the dead for which we as a nation, are responsible, don’t even have graves to lie in. Their bodies populate the lands of Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan,Yemen and yes Palestine, which we can see if we bother to look. But, no lets all be polite, not talk politics, focus on the mundane and promote those in power, because they have power which we as the American people continue to allow.
>>
>>
>>> On Mar 12, 2017, at 07:18, Boyle, Francis A <fboyle at illinois.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah. Sure. Tell that to our Palestinian American Native American Studies Professor Steven Salaita, his wife and their baby whom Wise {sic} illegally fired and threw out into the street and with no visible means of support. A two’fer for bigotry and racism by Wise {sic!}. May Wise {sic!} rot in purgatory!
>>> Fab
>>>
>>>
>>> Francis A. Boyle
>>> Law Building
>>> 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
>>> Champaign IL 61820 USA
>>> 217-333-7954 (phone)
>>> 217-244-1478 (fax)
>>> (personal comments only)
>>
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