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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I found Shakespeare to be horrendously boring.
The “music” is one of the vanguards to destroy the Western culture.
With “friends” like this, minorities really don’t need any enemies.
This smug woman is — deep in her soul — a racist.
It would be interesting to know if this idiot was an economics teacher instead of and English teacher if she would use any material that Thomas Sowell has published over the years.
Sowell is black but he’s also a conservative, I’d bet money that would be a disqualifier.
People who hate Western society should leave it.
Problem solved.
What? You say you want all the trappings and benefits of Western society but without all this oppressive white people?
The answer, then, is no.
Leave.
Needs to follow this idiots lead....
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“...students shouldn’t be expected to study a “a long-dead, British guy” “
Guilt-ridden liberal? Careful sorting it out by race there, teacher. By that standard we shouldn’t be expected to learn about the history of any minority. (Slaves? They’re all long-dead, shouldn’t be taught in schools)
She definitely has a bit of Dolezal about her.
Sue your teacher. You got cheated.
It sounds more like an intense expression of the Humanist worldview -
nothing in the past is of value because the people of today are so much smarter and more enlightened.
You’ll see this as the basis of most of their conclusions.
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I have money that she has them read other dead authors, so the sole issue is that she doesn’t like whites.
That said, I think Shakespeare self-identified as a living black woman.
Such as? Show me the grand civilizations that have arisen out of Africa? What devices have been conceived out of the African mind that has taken them to other worlds? Where are the cures and remedies that the African medical world has concocted? The libraries of thought that have been transcribed to parchment? The art that fills their museums?
There are none because the African mind cannot conceive of anything greater than itself.
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