The New Left was always all about race. When Bill Ayers’s five-year-old son asked him, dad, will you love me no matter what? Is there anything I could do that would make you stop loving me? Bill thought for a minute and said, “Maybe if you were a racist.” 1/3 
His son later asked him why he said that to a kid. “Because that was the central part of my life. And still is.” More than being a teacher or a parent? “You have to understand, everything about our country, everything about our culture, our politics: it’s all about race. Wherever you start, you’ll find race.”
“Many years later, when I turned 17 and was a junior in high school, Bill mentioned to me, in a kind of offhand way, that he had always hoped that the two of us might go south together to kill the man who had murdered Medgar Evers…
Talking about taking your teenage son, for his 18th birthday, on a vigilante road trip across the country to kill a Klansman and avenge a cold case from decades earlier? I don't know if I realized, even then, how strange that really was.”
Talking about taking your teenage son, for his 18th birthday, on a vigilante road trip across the country to kill a Klansman and avenge a cold case from decades earlier? I don't know if I realized, even then, how strange that really was.”
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