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Are_we_sure ago

Just some background on the history. It's known that Bill Ayers and Barrack Obama knew each other. They worked on a school reform project in Chicago, not the Weather Underground. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Annenberg_Challenge

Ayers formed the Weather Underground in 1969 and by 1972 he was a full fugitive from the law. He went underground for years. After Ayers turned himself in 1980., He did not go to prison because it was discovered the government illegally burgled and wiretapped the Weather Underground. His wife had some state charges and got three years probation and later spent a year in jail for refusing to testify in a different case. So Ayers was not wanted by the US government. He would go on to be a professor of education and well respected scholar. He went back to school and earned a doctorate in education by the end of the 1980s. So for most of the 1980's he was in school in NYC.

Obama's involvement in the civic life of Chicago began in 1985, he was a community organizer for a group of Catholic Parishes. Then in 1988 he went to Havard Law and graduated in 1991 and started teaching at the University of Chicago Law School. In 1995, he joined the school reform project, by which point Ayers was known as ex-radical who arguing that kids perform better in small classrooms which is pretty accepted by educators across the country now.