I was there to add some color to the British theater. "But the blacks can’t do Shakespeare, they have no experience.” This was true. Their thick skulls bled with rancor when the riot police and the skinheads exchanged quips you could trace to the Sonnets . . . –Midsummer, Derek Walcott Based on the passage from the poem, what is the speaker’s perspective on British culture? He believes that no one really understands the works of William Shakespeare. He believes that black people are generally viewed and treated as outsiders in England. He believes that black actors should not perform in Shakespearean plays in England. He believes that reading Shakespeare would encourage British people to be less violent.