Old 'White' Men, Part I

Some students with a tanned skin tone have decided they should ***** and moan, over the fact they were made to read the greatest writers in history. It wasn’t the content they attacked, instead it was that the writers lack the desired amount of melanin, as if that were unforgivable sin. Of the classics they would not avail, because their authors had been pale. They're too young and dumb to ever see it is they who reeked of bigotry. Judging men not by their souls, and the great tales they have told, as if human nature applies to only those who might share your hue. They’re idiots who fail the test, make their lives all about flesh, no clue the wisdom awaiting them if they’d only read those old ‘white’ men. To understand man you must know of the things that Shakespeare wrote, no better judge of how we act, of where we thrive, and what we lack. He understood what made us tick, why we go from joyous to tragic, why we love those we can’t have, how power corrupts a noble man. All the foibles of those on Earth In iambic pentameter, and though he shines brighter than most stars, in truth he only is the start. Dickens told all the peoples’ tales, with novels numerous and hailed, and not just tales, but tomes that seek the betterment of society. Dostoyevsky probed into the mind, to see what hidden demons lie, while Tolstoy took a wider glance or countries clashing, nations askance. Orwell warned of horror to come, did it so well, we all look dumb when his prophecies come true, we can’t say,”If we only knew…” CONCLUDES IN PART II.