Originally posted by 46and2:
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Originally posted by Leemur:
Angelou spoke at my freshman year college commencement and I had to go as part of a class assignment. I was fine with it until she started in on white people, men in particular, needing to read poetry by black women if they ever hope to be considered cultured. This was 1990 and the left was already doing that shit. I’ve had a negative opinion of her ever since.
Well of course she did, it's what being cultured means...
(Learning about other, surprise:
cultures and perspectives.)
What do you think cultured means, otherwise? Enjoying some General Tso's chicken?
You cannot, in fact, be cultured without such things. It's literally impossible.
Some useful synonyms for Cultured: "cultivated, artistically aware, intellectually aware, artistic, enlightened, civilized, educated, well educated, well read, well informed, learned, knowledgeable."
It wasn't a cult she was trying to recruit you into, it was some ... poetry.
