/lit/ - Literature

>GCSE English. (14-16 Year Olds for you Americans)
>Mixed Sets.
>8/20 of the Class are Black.
>Of those 7, 6 fit the stereotypes. (IE, they can't read)
>Assigned to read Othello and To Kill a Mockingbird.
>"Bookz is racist, youz whities are always tryin to keep us down."
>Have to be assigned new books due to complains from their illiterate parents.
>The new books also had to "Embrace black heritage, and be of the appropriate reading level". (Theirs, not mine or even the other illiterate cretins)
>Read shit about voodoo written for 5 year olds/black teenagers.

<mfw

'Hamlet doesn't want to loose her..'
'After they loose the battle...'

So today I realized that language is an absolutely terrible medium for analysis. This is a large part of the need for lawyers.

WTF was I doing in undergrad with all those "critical" essays? What a waste...