[Sans-Culotte]

In a similar move, a Massachusetts high school boasted that it had removed Homer’s Odyssey from the school curriculum as it conflicted with the anti-racist agenda it wanted to teach. “Very proud to say we got the Odyssey removed from the curriculum this year,” a teacher wrote on social media.

What's "racist" about The Odyssey?

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”What’s “racist” about The Odyssey?”

NOTHING!

Long ago I read (skimmed?) The Odyssey for a class.
My son recommended the Emily Wilson translation, OH MY!

Some of the best fiction, ever.

I knew the ending but about a third of the way in, I could not stop reading! I read all night!

And Tennyson’s Ulysses is a nice denouement, Odysseus was not born to sit around... So he puts the band back together for a world tour.

“Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.”

“We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

What's "racist" about The Odyssey?

We all know that if Odysseus was black, Athena wouldn't have given him so much help. /s