Toni Morrison: Fear Of Losing White Privilege Led To Trumps Election

[sheshe2]

“The comfort of being ‘naturally better than’ is hard to give up.”



Toni Morrison has written a powerful essay in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election as president of the United States, and it gets right to the heart of why Trump won.

In a piece titled “Mourning For Whiteness” from the November 21 print issue of the New Yorker (published online Monday), the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist argues that Trump won due to the terror of privileged white men in the face of a rapidly diversifying country.

Under slave laws, the necessity for color rankings was obvious, but in America today, post-civil-rights legislation, white people’s conviction of their natural superiority is being lost,” Morrison writes.

“There are ‘people of color’ everywhere, threatening to erase this long-understood definition of America. And what then? Another black President? A predominantly black Senate? Three black Supreme Court Justices? The threat is frightening.”

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On Election Day, how eagerly so many white voters—both the poorly educated and the well educated—embraced the shame and fear sowed by Donald Trump. The candidate whose company has been sued by the Justice Department for not renting apartments to black people. The candidate who questioned whether Barack Obama was born in the United States, and who seemed to condone the beating of a Black Lives Matter protester at a campaign rally. The candidate who kept black workers off the floors of his casinos. The candidate who is beloved by David Duke and endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan.

Read More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/toni-morrison-fear-of-losing-white-privilege-led-to-trumps-election_us_58330ee2e4b058ce7aac0964

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Fear of losing their white privilege. It will still happen, just not yet. Yet happen it will.

[guillaumeb]

1. Recommended.

White male privilege is under attack by the non-white and non-male. The idea that all should be equally privileged is obviously unacceptable.

[sheshe2]

4. Thank you, guillaumeb.

You get it.

[cilla4progress]

2. This

Nails it

[The Wielding Truth]

3. Yes. Also the disparity between rich and poor is so wide it is almost impossible to bridge.

[2naSalit]

5. K.&.R.

[heaven05]

6. SO VERY TRUE

One of the major reasons their fuhrer is now going to have his tiny hands on "the football". OOOHHHH LORDY BE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sheshe2]

9. Uuuhmmmm

[radical noodle]

7. Yes! This is what I've seen in everyone I know who voted Trump

They aren't poor, they've never been noticeably racist, but they are afraid of losing the society they've always known. Some have been particularly antagonistic about BLM and the police. They have no idea what white privilege is and don't really care.

[Quayblue]

13. Yes. I have a person I work with closely who is like this.

I decided to handle her with a long spoon.

[Starry Messenger]

8. k&r

[JI7]

10. this is exactly what it was. people uncomfortable certain types of people

were not staying in their place and gettting uppity with things.

[lovemydog]

11. Toni Morrison is such a great writer.

Here's the link from The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/21/making-america-white-again

I'm interested in hearing from others too, their thoughts & opinions.

I hope you & your loved ones enjoy a good thanksgiving sheshe2.

[sheshe2]

12. Toni Morrison is a gifted woman.

I wish you and yours a great thanksgiving as well. Our official day with turkey and family will be Saturday, several are working tomorrow.

PS... thanks for the link, lovemydog.