SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE: 

THIS IS BEING TAUGHT TO OUR KIDS, from the New York Post: 

Shakespeare has long been dismissed, with others in the Western canon, as a dead white male.
Now, there’s another, worse charge against the bard — he created the concept of whiteness. 
Yes, instead of standing in the line of literary giants such as Dante, Chaucer and Goethe, Shakespeare is to be associated from now on with the likes of the 19th-century French apostle of scientific racism Arthur de Gobineau, George Wallace and — why not? — the Oath Keepers. 
If you’ve wondered if there’s anything that race-obsessed activists, bureaucrats and academics can’t ruin, the answer is “No,” as they begin get to work in earnest trying to tear down a towering genius who has had an immense — and profoundly edifying — effect on our culture.   According to a new volume, “White People in Shakespeare,” the immortal playwright was engaged in “white-people-making.”  The contributors to the book aren’t surprised by the “fact of Shakespeare’s global, representational power existing almost in tandem with a global white cultural supremacy.” Indeed, it only renders “more unremarkable or invisible a unique alliance of white people and Shakespeare.” QED.  It’s pretty much a direct line from the Globe Theatre in the 16th century to the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.  Although “it’s quite likely very few if any of those assembled at the Capitol on that day thought of Shakespeare” — perhaps the most unassailable statement in the volume — it was still “white people’s Shakespearean theater on a grand scale.”  I think it's time to declare the "woke" movement guilty of child abuse, and prosecute accordingly.  In the meantime, there is a song from the musical "Kiss Me Kate" called "Brush Up Your Shakespeare."  I suggest it be sung at halftime in every college football game. 

March 21, 2023