UPDATE: On Ayers son named after the Black Panther killer of state trooper - Really!
“As Zayd Dohrn has explained it, he’s always been “more about art than activism,” having never been under any particular pressure from his parents to inject political themes into his writings.
All well and fine, and only anything of a surprise when you consider his parents, the academics Bernardine Dohrn and William Ayers.
Yeah — that Bill Ayers. The man who became a human talking point on a hundred thousand pundit-casts; an issue unto himself (as was the Reverend Wright) in the campaign against Barack Obama, and still likely a blood-boiler for those who can remember back as far as last Labor Day.
When the inevitable elephant-in-the-living-room topic is introduced to the conversation, Dohrn (whose first name was inspired by murdered Black Panther Zayd Shakur) offers that he and his dad “have different priorities, different outlooks.”
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