[tophat9000]

Another Trans Am (TransAmerican)

[Cecily]

Denzel is a Shakespearean actor.

[x]

“I sit with Shakespeare, and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm and arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out of the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed Earth and the tracery of stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the veil. Is this the life you grudge us, O knightly America?”

[dforest]

I guess whites shouldn’t listen to BB King because he is dead and black.

Gawd, how stupid.

[Crucial]

I guess I’m less angry about this kind of bigotry than I am just floored by these liberals’ profound stupidity.

[justiceseeker93]

This smiling witch of a teacher is nothing but a freakin' racist doing her best to destroy her own country and culture, which she obviously detests, and to convert the US into a Third World cesspool. This perverted mindset - HATE THE WHITE MALE! - is deeply ingrained in the ideology of much of today's left!

Time was when a teacher like her who refused to teach the basic curriculum would be out of a job in short order!

[Slings and Arrows]

I wonder if she realizes that Africa is a continent with hundreds of heterogeneous cultures?

(Never mind, it’s a rhetorical question.)

[Billthedrill]

I really don't have a great deal of patience with this. Had she managed to cite a single example of "the oral tradition out of Africa, which includes an equally relevant commentary on human behavior" then I might be buying it, but I certainly can't. Oh, and I don't speak Bantu and neither do her students.

I would think any English-speaking (or any other) literature student to be deprived if he or she did not make acquaintance with, say, Cervantes or Goethe, Montaigne or Dostoevsky. This is not any great revelation. If Shakespeare isn't on that list the student is just as deprived if not more so. Does this teacher imagine that they don't teach Shakespeare in other languages? Apparently so:

Many, many of our students come from these languages and traditions … perhaps we no longer have the time to study the Western canon that so many of us know and hold dear.

We do have the time to prune it to the essentials, which is what teachers are supposed to do. Shakespeare is one of those. If she could make the ghost of a case that any oral tradition of Africa is remotely equivalent, call me.

[longtermmemmory]

so she is a racist because she EXCULDES one author because of his skin. (BTW how does she KNOW his skin color? she is assuming.)

[The Louiswu]

Well she is a crap teacher. My wife and I saw an updated version of Othello in Chicago that was FANTASTIC! She should be fired for lack of imagination and the inability to spark her students creativity.