Okay, So Now Shakespeare Was (What Else?) a Black Woman

The woke tide may be receding in the popular culture, but far-left fantasists are still everywhere, endlessly devising new ways to sow confusion, resentment, and self-hatred among Americans and Westerners in general. And so now comes the news that the greatest writer in the English language, the touchstone of everything literature can and should be, the world’s premier dead white male of all dead white males, was not white or male at all. Or at least leftists want you to think he wasn’t.

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According to a new book that is getting adulatory reviews from leftists, William Shakespeare was really a black woman, and really, what else could he possibly have been? The only drawback, as far as today’s leftists are concerned, is