When teachers begin to attack the baseOf their own culture, its ideas and traditions,Beyond mere criticism to full assault,Poisoning its art with lethal theoryAnd deconstructing its literature, religion and historyIn the light of an immaculate, elite moralityBorn of the utter denial of its own darkness,One could argue that the end is in sight:What culture can survive such self-rejectionFrom the ranks of its tutors, curators and professors,Teaching students to despise their own culture?And I, for one, will grieve deeplyAt the coming loss of the Western world,Now hissing in the acid of its own self-loathing. We shudder in shame at our founding fathers,And once where we celebrated our common-wealthWe mourn the vision of our forebears' genocide,Believing our foundations were laid in crime.Colonial nations have no right to beProud or successful through the losses of others,And thus implicitly forfeit their rightTo exist. So be it. Let us curse our cultureAs criminal and reap the...(Read Full Post)