Wednesday, June 07, 2006

LORD ACTON AGAIN

LORD ACTON WHISPERED TO ME - AGAIN - AS I LISTENED TO A BLACK, FEMINIST ACADEMIC AND WRITER LECTURE ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF HER 'AUTHORITY.' "POWER TENDS TO CORRUPT; ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY," LORD ACTON OBSERVED. THE POWER OF THIS PROFESSOR'S LIBERALISM MIRED HER IN THE POLITICS OF VICTIMHOOD AND THE RELIGION OF GODLESSNESS. HER POLITICS WAS FRAMED AND NARRATED FROM A WORLD VIEW OF WHITE RACISM AND PLAYED INTO WHITE GUILT. HER RELIGION BLINKERED HER SELF-CONTRADICTIONS AND ITS DOGMA WAS SELF-SATISFACTION. TWO QUOTATIONS FROM HER WILL SUFFICE. THIS WOMAN DECRIED THE "TREASON THE STATUS QUO." SAY WHAT? WITH SUCH INCENDIARY, SENSELESS, PHRASING, WHO WOULDN'T GIVE THIS SPEAKER A STANDING OVATION TELLING HER TO 'YOU GO GIRL?' SHE ALSO IMPRESSED HER AUDIENCE WITH THE FACT SHE SPONSORED A DISCUSSION GROUP CALLED A "WISDOM CIRCLE." SAY WHAT AGAIN? THIS BLACK PROFESSOR’S LITERARY POWER, AUTHORITY, WAS ON PARADE, THOUGH I SAW HER JUST AS A BABBLER IN THE WOODS. WOULD LORD ACTION - WHITE, MALE, DEAD OVER A CENTURY- HAVE ALLOWED HIS ABSOLUTE POWER TO BE RE-DEFINED AS 'COMPLETE, AUTHORITATIVE NONSENSE?' WELL, THIS BLACK WOMAN DID!

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