MEET DANA DUSBIBER
Posted on 06/15/2015 9:13:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Washington Post has published a guest article by a California teacher arguing that American high school students shouldn’t read Shakespeare because he’s a dead, white man.
Dana Dusbiber, who teaches English in Sacramento, says she avoids Hamlet and all the rest because her minority students shouldn’t be expected to study a “a long-dead, British guy” (Dusbiber herself is white). And while Shakespeare is widely regarded as the premier writer of the English language, able to timelessly portray themes central to the human experience, Dusbiber says he only is regarded that way because “some white people” ordained it and he can easily be replaced.
“Why not teach the oral tradition out of Africa, which includes an equally relevant commentary on human behavior?” She suggests. “Why not teach translations of early writings or oral storytelling from Latin America or Southeast Asia other parts of the world? 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.”
To bolster her case for dumping the Bard, Dusbiber says that minority students, like those who dominate her own classroom, deserve to study their own cultures rather than being exposed to “Eurocentrism.” But at the same time, she takes the exact opposite position for whites, saying school should be a place for them to explore cultures other than their own.
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That calculus is just some old white guy stuff. Only important because white guys decreed it so.
Does she think she is black?
The NAACP is hiring.
The very face of “Liberalism Is A Mental Disorder”.
With a little spray tan she can even say she’s not white.
Oh gee, I am guess I’m a real bigot (and a Eurocentric to boot) because last month I not only went to lots of museums in London, England (we know what Michelle thinks of those places), but I also took in a Shakespearian play at the Globe Theatre (The Merchant of Venice; last year in London I saw Anthony and Cleopatra).
The American education system is rampant with woman like her.
“white” => conservative, non-white => “of color” => progressive.
“race” => ideology, non-progressive => racist haters.
Once again, he who controls the meaning of the words and memes controls the outcome of the debate. Not playing that game anymore.
“Why not teach the oral tradition out of Africa, which includes an equally relevant commentary on human behavior?” She suggests. “Why not teach translations of early writings or oral storytelling from Latin America or Southeast Asia other parts of the world?
Because it’s important to encourage people of color to revert back to the savagery and primitivism of their ancestors in order to better fit in with modern society?
BTW, is it equally important to deprive people of color all advancements made by ALL dead white men (Steve Jobs, Henery Ford, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Flemin,Louis Pasteur, et. al.), or just deprive them from the achievements of certain selected dead white men?
So she dumps Shakespeare. Is there an equivalent to him in the other-ethnicity community?
Tupac? Fitty Cent? Snoop Dogg?
If their cultures are so great, why are they here?
Tyrone Green.
Images
Dark and lonely on the summer night.
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Watchdog barking - Do he bite?
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
Slip in his window,
Break his neck!
Then his house
I start to wreck!
Got no reason —
What the heck!
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord.
C-I-L-L ...
My land - lord ...
Def!
And she doesn’t see her own racism.
Pathetic.
With her insight, she should be training dogs.
Needs to be fired immediately.
As a general rule, I don’t listen to negro music.
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” As someone else said, “If Shakespeare were alive today, he’d be doing time.”
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