So, unless you have been living under a rock (or, you know, are painfully white), you probably know by this point that Arizona has banned so-called “ethnic studies”.  This has a lot of people mad - and rightfully so.  It’s bullshit.  Racist bullshit.

Well, you know wherever injustice rears its ugly head, Change.org is going to be there with a petition.  And this was no exception.  Today, I received the following e-mail from them:

Of all the authors to ban… Shakespeare?

Dear Bria,

Arizona lawmakers banned schools in the state from teaching “ethnic studies” classes. Unless public schools canceled classes that included racial and ethnic themes, the state could block schools from receiving millions of dollars in critical classroom funding.

But Arizona state officials pushed one school district too far: Tucson Unified School District not only cancelled its vibrant ethnic studies classes, but also banished any book that dealt with “race or oppression.”

As a result, students and teachers say dozens of books — including Shakespeare’s The Tempest — can no longer be taught in class, and some have even been removed from classrooms and locked up in school storage.

Bolding is completely theirs.

…Do you hear what I am saying here, people?  They banned Shakespeare.  They banned a white man.  OH, LORD, HOW COULD YOU ALLOW SUCH A TRAVESTY TO EXIST?  THEY BANNED A WHITE MAN.

I mean, fuck all of the amazing authors of color they banned along with Shakespeare.  They officially took it too far banning the white man.

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In b4 “But why do you have to make it all about race?”