Wishful Thinking Dept.

     In a column that reports on a crazy “professor” decrying Shakespeare as a symbol of “white supremacy,” Lincoln Brown deposeth and sayeth:

     There is no shortage of funds and support for black, brown, or native people to make their own movies. Let us have a new version of “Arrow to the Sun” made by a Native American. There is no shortage of stories in the Native American tradition, including the Coyote trickster tales that would make for fascinating viewing. Likewise, there are a plethora of West African stories, such as the trickster spider Anansi, waiting for black filmmakers to tell them. Let Latino filmmakers take a crack at the legends from the Popol Vuh; I am sure they would make one hell of a series of movies.

     To which I reply: Why hasn’t it happened already?

     The printed word – the book — nearly always comes before the film. There are few literary geniuses among the peoples Brown enumerates. Moreover, the audience for art aimed specifically at those peoples is small; most are largely indifferent to such efforts. Besides, the money today is in exactly what that crazy professor is doing: attacking whites and their accomplishments. Sutton’s Law applies here as everywhere.

     The racial and ethnic story traditions Brown cites in the above are largely oral. Why is that? Why haven’t those cultural legacies inspired chroniclers and tale-tellers like Aesop, Homer, Chaucer, Hans Christian Andersen, or the brothers Grimm? I don’t think it’s about a lack of funding.

     Literacy and the preservation of cultural treasures through the printed word are specifically Euro-Caucasian practices. (Then again, so was Gutenberg.) Therefore, the Left, which hates everything associated with the white race, must attack and destroy them. With a flock of self-hating white billionaires funding such attacks, no further explanation is required.