Yale-Educated Lupita Nyong’o Admits She Never Heard of ‘The Odyssey’ Before Helen of Troy Casting

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Boston College yes

But San Diego State?

No way

You can't count or read either? How ******* stupid are you? I said 2! Two. More than one. Less than three. God have mercy on your miserable wretched soul!

 

[Mac-7]

You can't count or read either? How ******* stupid are you? I said 2! Two. More than one. Less than three. God have mercy on your miserable wretched soul!

What are you ranting about?

You can try to deflect

But the fact is that US education is a mess

 

[Zincwarrior]

Why would you discuss the Odyssey in a theater arts program?

I never discussed the Odyssey in college, undergrad or grad school, but I did in my American high school. She attended high school in Kenya. I am sure they have different standards. Would you have expected that knowledge of the Chinese students attending my graduate school in Florida?

Having her play Helen was a stupid concept, but you morons better temper your expectations about education in Africa! You are making yourselves out to be undereducated fools!

Helen was not in the Odyssey.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Alexander fan?

Person yes, movie no.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

What are you ranting about?

You can try to deflect

But the fact is that US education is a mess

You cannot ******* read. I posted that Karen Bass attended a state university. The other two did not, as you claimed they did. You were ******* wrong and refuse to admit your error. Everyone else can see you are a loudmouth asshole. You are the one ranting with lies!

 

[westwall]

Prove it! You can't. All you have is your assumptions. If you know for certain of this, why would she lie?

I'm sorry, you are like a coon dog barking up the wrong tree!

This is why no one takes you seriously, anyone with a modicum of intellect has heard of Homer. One need not be a ancient languages scholar to have heard of him.

She performed in a Shakespeare play, she is a performing arts major, thus she would be familiar with ALL of the Bards plays, including Troilus and Cressida, an adaptation of Homer's Iliad.

So her never having heard of Homer is mind boggling.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

It’s OK.
Most blacks had never heard of Juneteenth until democrats made it into a segregation holiday.
Most blacks had never heard of Alexander Hamilton before his legacy was bastardized by a racist ‘musical’.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Person yes,

that's what I meant

movie no.

Not sure I knew there was one

 

[rosends]

This is why no one takes you seriously, anyone with a modicum of intellect has heard of Homer. One need not be a ancient languages scholar to have heard of him.

She performed in a Shakespeare play, she is a performing arts major, thus she would be familiar with ALL of the Bards plays, including Troilus and Cressida, an adaptation of Homer's Iliad.

So her never having heard of Homer is mind boggling.

just because you play Desdemona doesn't mean you have read Henry IV, Part 2

 

[westwall]

just because you play Desdemona doesn't mean you have read Henry IV, Part 2

Yeah, if you are a performing arts major YOU HAVE.

 

[Rawley]

I bolded the key words you are not missing. She was not raised on Western Literature.

You claim she had knowledge she obviously didn't and yet you cannot prove she should have been exposed to the Odyssey, when she obviously was not.

She went to a private International school for high school and her father was a collage professor. Seems a bit racist to say Africans don't study the classics.

 

[rosends]

Yeah, if you are a performing arts major YOU HAVE.

No, not really. On what are you basing your claim? I went to college with a bunch of performing arts people. They didn't sit and read the entire of the Shakespearean catalog not matter what you think.

 

[westwall]

No, not really. On what are you basing your claim? I went to college with a bunch of performing arts people. They didn't sit and read the entire of the Shakespearean catalog not matter what you think.

At the graduate level they sure do. I know several Rutgers grads, Matt Boston has been a friend for decades, I even flew our to Denver for a performance he did a few years ago. Shakespeare is deep within the the curriculum of the performing arts.

 

[rosends]

At the graduate level they sure do. I know several Rutgers grads, Matt Boston has been a friend for decades, I even flew our to Denver for a performance he did a few years ago. Shakespeare is deep within the the curriculum of the performing arts.

That's nice. I know Brandeis grads. Should I throw names around? Having Shakespeare there doesn't mean reading all his plays.