Original sentence: Churchill became the focus of political criticism and general media scrutiny in 2005 for an essay he wrote immediately following the September 11, 2001 attacks.Churchill was born and grew up in a blue-collar family in Elmwood, Illinois.He is currently a tenured professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder.In the essay Churchill says that many World Trade Center victims were not entirely innocent because of their role in supporting what he claims are the United States' imperialistic global economic and foreign policies.This controversy sparked renewed criticism of Churchill concerning his ethnicity and scholarly work.Ward LeRoy Churchill (born October 2, 1947) is an American author who claims partial American Indian descent
Edited sentence: Churchill became the focus of political criticism and general media scrutiny in 2005 for an essay he wrote following the September 11, 2001 attacks.Churchill was born and grew up in a white blue-collar family in Elmwood, Illinois.He is currently a tenured professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder although faces an investigation by the University's Standing Committe for Research Misconduct into allegations of academic fraud and plagiarism.In the essay Churchill argues that the victims were appropriate targets and were not entirely innocent because of their role in supporting what he claims are the United States' imperialistic global economic and foreign policies.This controversy sparked renewed criticism of Churchill concerning his ethnicity and scholarly work although Churchill's defenders argue that this concern is motivated by a desire to silence him.Ward LeRoy Churchill (born October 2, 1947) is an American author who claims partial American Indian descent, a claim rejected by the Grand Governing Council of the American Indian Movement