When I saw this headline Rev. Wright's honorary degree canceled by Northwestern my immediate thought was that the people who run Northwestern are hypocrites. Let me rephrase that--the people who run Northwestern are idiots.
I say that not because I like Reverend Wright. In fact I think he's shown himself to be quite the idiot and hypocrite as well. I've never understood why it's OK for a black man like him to say things that a white person were to say would be labeled racist--and rightly so. And to suggest that the HIV virus was created by the government to enable genocide or that the government distributes drugs in the gheto implies to me that Reverend Wright's elevator doesn't go to all floors.
So why do I think Northwestern is hypocritical and idiotic? Their law school employs Bernadine Dohrn, former Weathermen member. 
For the youngsters, The Weathermen were a sixties/seventies radical group that advocated violence against the government and proceeded to do just that with bombings until several of them accidentally blew themselves up. She and her husband Bill Ayers also participated in Chicago's Days of Rage. Dohrn and her husband had gone underground after the accident but eventually turned themselves in. They ended up serving time on lesser charges than the original charges of conspiracy to bomb police stations and government buildings. After her release Dohrn, who had a law degree, attempted to work at a New York law firm but was turned down by the Bar Association there because of her past activities. Ironies abound. She has a law degree but can't practice it because of her criminal past. She eventually ended up at the Northwestern Law School and has been there ever since.
I was then and have continued to be repelled by radicals from that era, including Dohrn and her husband, because of their extreme arrogance at thinking they were so right that they showed total disregard for human life. So for Northwestern to back out on Reverend Wright, hardly someone I would ever find myself agreeing with, while continuing to employ a convicted criminal in their law school of all places, well, it smells a lot like someone failed to refrigerate the fish. That someone is the people who run Northwestern.
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