The Devolution of American Lit

by Malcolm Unwell (February 2012)

It has been assumed by education bureaucrats, quite erroneously, that minority students will thrive if they see their own cultures reflected in the curriculum. According to this paradigm, we must get rid of about fifty percent of the Western Cannon (which is mostly comprised of dead white-males anyway) and replace it with new material by Hispanic, African American, and Native American authors.

Included in another current textbook is a poem from Ki no Tsurayuki:

When I went to visit

The girl I love so much

That winter night

The river blew so cold

That the plovers [a type of bird] were crying.

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

Summertime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

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