Communal

                                        Communal

For a culture awash in communal property, there's a whole lot of ownership going on, specifically ownership of literature and history. It's as if there is a shortage of both, as if one is taking too much of the history or literature pie.

If this sounds familiar, it should, This is the hallmark of the Progressive Left thinking: The Zero Sum Game. All things are in limited resource so anything one person has, he took from another. The rich has taken the poor's wages, the land owner has the apartment dwellers house, the Yankees have all the Pittsburgh Pirates.

For Black History Month, Barnes and Noble planned to publish classic works of literature in “Diverse Editions,” with new covers featuring nonwhite figures. One version of “Romeo and Juliet,” for instance, would be illustrated by a black couple kissing, even though Shakespeare’s characters are Italian. Within days, however, the company withdrew the plan in the face of online rancor over what one critic called “literary blackface.” 

To my knowledge, no English or Italians protested.

A new performance of "The Tempest" was done entirely played by women.

Henry V was done in Central Park with a male lead who was black.

Are these examples of cultural appropriation?