Talk:William Estabrook Chancellor
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Is this newsworthy enough, especially when there is so much speculation about "the first Black American to achieve the highest office in the land" - Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice? It occurs to me, that Black aspirations, and African American pride can only be abashed at such a record - be he of African American lineage or not! But was Chancellor right to have published - right with his facts I mean? Or did the roorbacks exhibit a mean-spirited, nasty, brutal streak of racism? I suspect Harding supporters would have folks say that about Chancellor ... whilst those that see his marriage into Beecher Stowe's family a confirmation, and celebration, of African American values? Whatever it is - Chancellor's story remains largely unheard - although echoes seemed to surface in Philip Roth's "The Human Stain" - where a professor is again 'hounded from office' under the cloud of suspicion of racism; Roth's professor, it turns out - also owns unspoken lineage ... but this time, it is the professor who has been accused of anti-Black attitudes. John A. Murphy writes of Chancellor's experiences under Harding's dogged pursuit in his publication of 2000 - "The Indictment". That so little of Harding's memory is remembered today may well be testimony to the gargantuan failure of his Presidency (corruption and poor policies); so little of Chancellor's a testimony to the ruthlessness that Harding utilised in effacing his name from history. And if we let Harding get away with it, that is as much indictment as any ... —80.40.0.111 17:47, 25 November 2004 (UTC)
[edit] “Chancellor moved to Canada.”
Y'know, that sort of thing is not normally taken as a sufficient end to a biography. It would seem that Chancellor spent about 40 years in Canada. The LoC doesn't have any listings for further publications, nor did I find any in the LAC, so apparently the Canadians wouldn't publish his stuff either. What was he doing? Lumberjacking? Singing “Beautiful Ohio” for pennies on street corners? —12.72.71.48 13:25, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
