>- They have that moral authority among those who have chosen
>to buy into what the Civil Rights Movement fought to sell

actually i don't think it's the crm so much as pomo and post-crm identity politics. but not very relevant to a thread in which men aren't observing the minimum of decency forget about conceding "huge moral authority".

(actually, what happens is that the white guys will discuss how they are queer, genderqueer, manic depressive and have chronic fatigue before any woman of color can claim any moral authority. to be fair, a workiing class union organizer i know says the same thing about middle class women like me.)