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Teacher: I Don’t Teach Shakespeare Because He’s White
Daily Caller ^ | 06/15/2015 | Blake Neff

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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TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: academia; academicbias; arth; bigotry; california; culturewar; danadusbiber; deadwhitemales; education; endwhiteshaming; eurocentrism; leftismoncampus; liberalbigot; naughtyteacherslist; race; racist; sacramento; shakespeare; stalinisttactics; whitemales
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To: SeekAndFind
Actually, he's not white, he's dust. And this teacher is both stupid and unethical, because she is trying to make her students even more stupid than she is, since she's actually read Shakespeare, but unless her students sneak copies of Hamlet in their beds a la Montag in Fahrenheit 451, they will never learn the lessons that Shakespeare teaches best.
21 posted on 06/15/2015 9:25:14 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: SeekAndFind

I found Shakespeare to be horrendously boring.


22 posted on 06/15/2015 9:26:09 AM PDT by wastedyears (Knights of Sidonia)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The “music” is one of the vanguards to destroy the Western culture.


23 posted on 06/15/2015 9:26:49 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SeekAndFind

With “friends” like this, minorities really don’t need any enemies.


24 posted on 06/15/2015 9:26:52 AM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This smug woman is — deep in her soul — a racist.


25 posted on 06/15/2015 9:27:07 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


26 posted on 06/15/2015 9:28:50 AM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Instructs ebonics.
27 posted on 06/15/2015 9:29:08 AM PDT by OLDCU
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To: catnipman

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.


28 posted on 06/15/2015 9:29:18 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (B.L.O.A.T. : Buy Lots Of Ammo Today)
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To: SeekAndFind
ACTUAL UN-Retouched... PHOTO




29 posted on 06/15/2015 9:29:25 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: SeekAndFind
OK so white people should be free to study other cultures but black, Asian, and Hispanic students should stick with their own? Isn't she promoting white privledge?
30 posted on 06/15/2015 9:30:12 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: SeekAndFind

Needs to follow this idiots lead....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3300432/posts


31 posted on 06/15/2015 9:30:29 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: lurk

The Inner Meaning of the Works of Scoop Doggie Poop!


32 posted on 06/15/2015 9:30:36 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: SeekAndFind

“...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)


33 posted on 06/15/2015 9:31:39 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: SeekAndFind

She definitely has a bit of Dolezal about her.


34 posted on 06/15/2015 9:33:54 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: wastedyears
I found Shakespeare to be horrendously boring

Sue your teacher. You got cheated.

35 posted on 06/15/2015 9:35:46 AM PDT by Jim Noble (If you can't discriminate, you are not free)
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To: jughandle

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.


36 posted on 06/15/2015 9:36:49 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: onedoug

ping


37 posted on 06/15/2015 9:37:17 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


38 posted on 06/15/2015 9:37:20 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SeekAndFind
“Why not teach the oral tradition out of Africa, which includes an equally relevant commentary on human behavior?”

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.

39 posted on 06/15/2015 9:37:22 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: rjsimmon
Proof that the white man stole the African space program:


40 posted on 06/15/2015 9:39:04 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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