It is commonplace these days for those with axes to grind to hijack the organs of professional associations with diatribes on pet issues. When the American Psychological Association bestowed one of its most prestigious awards recently, the recipient launched into vitriol about past and continuing mistreatment of minorities to a degree that moved Kenneth Thomas and some colleagues to comment on the speaker's obvious disdain for white males and his general antipathy toward Euro-American civilization. (Contains 8 notes.)