"Tupac Shakur (search), is just Robert Frost (search) for kids of today.
And we wonder why our kids are screwed up. I don't know how you can equate gang violenc, rape, and drugs to Robert Frost. We really need to get the NEA out of public education."
Agreed. Shakespeare and other icons of classic literature are impugned and castigated as "dead white males" whereas pimps who bleat an obscene and ultraviolent nursery rhyme in a breathtakingly inarticulate fashion to a machine beat are regarded as "great writers".
We are in the midst of a Dark Age in our culture, but it still stands head and shoulders above others. Parents who care about a quality education for their children are forced to either homeschool, send thier child to a charter school (which is not always available in your community)or to an expensive private school (or college).
This will continue for as long as we place racial politics and political correctness above the pursuit of knowledge and truth. I feel optimistic, however, in that the public at large is finally recognizing this illness and is beginning to fight back. I don't know if there will be a "great awakening" of knowlege and culture free of the shackles of Socialist politics in my lifetime, but I see movement in that direction and so I continue to have hope.