27 March 2011
We first shared the article by Liberty Chick in our post “Bill Ayers to speak at NJ’s Montclair University on ‘Education and the New Activism’ ” The following is an update from Gulag Bound in which they quote Jerome Corsi’s article:
Video: Bill Ayers Again Claims he Wrote Dreams from My Father for Barack Obama
…At the conclusion of a speech sponsored by the Students for a Democratic Society at Montclair State University in New Jersey, the former Weather Underground bomber gleefully claimed credit for writing Obama’s “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.”
As shown in a video clip on YouTube, Ayers responding to a question about “Dreams,” said, “Did you know that I wrote it, incidentally?”
Read the entire article at Gulag Bound
Update: More at Weasel Zippers.
Update 2: At American Thinker, Jack Cashill has been on Ayers’ case for awhile, contending all along that Ayers wrote “Dreams”. Here is his latest, following the release of this video clip.
Update 3: Young Black Activist Blasts Bill Ayers for Opposition to Charter Schools, at The Blaze.
…Asking for his solutions to the educational crisis that impoverished students in this country face, Jean-Louis said to Ayers,
I had parents and students crying…to make sure that their students could get into the charter schools in the district–because the charter schools were higher performing–despite the fact that the public educational expenditures were higher. I’m just trying to understand exactly what your solutions are. In the same breath you said you’re anti-government, but you’re also anti-privatization…I don’t understand what your solutions are, specifically for the African America community.
Ayers responds, “What we need to do is invest more in the public schools.”
The crowd then stunningly calls out “No–no–noooo” in unison.
“The per pupil expenditures are higher in the inner city but we’re still not getting the results,” she observes…
Read the whole thing and watch the video of this exchange at The Blaze.
