/lit/ - Literature

>be poetry major at Ivy League school (CW)
>be white
>be assigned very respected poet as my major adviser by default. He happens to be black.
>no argument on my behalf because I don't care he's respected so cool.
>write senior thesis portfolio of poems
>best writing I'd done yet, literally years of work and polishing in workshop and no major complaints from prof at any point
>poems are about the ocean and feminine energy and Jungian archetypes and not about race whatsoever BTW, just sayan
>final review time, 1 on 1 with professor 3 months before graduation
>adviser says he hates my traditionalist adherence to form and poetic structure and I am propagating a conservative racist Albionist machine etc etc and he will never give me a passing grade because my poems embrace form and the fascist machine that accompanies it.
>Me: can we agree to disagree on that?
>Him: No u racist
> Me: Panic.exe
>save my poems in their real version and submit a BS watered down version for final portfolio
>Prof fails me on my final portfolio because according to him I sold out and pandered to an audience.
>Prof goes on sabbatical to Africa for 5 years and cannot be contacted
>I do not graduate
>Still in debt 5 years later and have no diploma because of this man
>This is entirely 100% true.
> My prof's FW

We racist now. Really.