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Thomas Lifson When excited bulletins on cable news let the public know that Maya Angelou had passed away, I bit my tongue and stayed my keyboard. I generally follow the rule of letting the dead rest in peace for a day or two before writing critically of them. But this fine piece by Daniel J. Flynn in the American Spectator covers many of the points I would have brought up about the late poet/madam/actress/communist/all around phony.
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once spent about 6 hours in close proximity to Ms. Angelou, flying from
Atlanta to San Francisco in the first class cabin of Delta jumbo jet.
The phony-detector in my head was flashing red almost the entire time.
I have never in my life seen so much fawning on the part of flight
attendants nor anyone receiving such fawning with quite the same level
of apparent belief it was the least that could be offered. Everyone in
that cabin was supposed to be aware that a higher being had graced us
with her presence.
Flynn calls her “an author more revered than read,” and that gets to
the heart of the Angelou phenomenon. I will give her credit, as Flynn
does, for playing a role very well. That role was as a victim who rose
beyond her victimhood to become an icon. But an icon of victimhood as
badge of honor, cultivating a voice, a manner, a persona that embodied
dignity, thereby triggering waves of adulation from those who, out of
guilt or hope, devoutly wished her to be a giant, so that all who have
been a dealt a bad hand at birth could similarly rise and find dignity.
She gave the suckers what they wanted. Flynn has got her number:“I’m not modest,” Angelou explained last year to the AP. “I have no modesty.” She got to know herself, apparently, after getting to know poetry and politics and songs and stage. She usurped her parents’ privilege by renaming herself after finding “Marguerite Johnson” not quite arresting enough. In this spirit, she insisted that others call her “Dr. Angelou” though she never obtained a college degree. (continued)
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Friday, May 30, 2014
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