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Toni Morrison Takes White Supremacy To Task
Published on Mar 24, 2012
Few intellectuals have waged a public battle against white supremacy and patriarchy like Toni Morrison. Morrison has both examined and challenged systems of domination throughout her intellectual life. With her novels, essays, and interviews she has taken critical looks at the interlocking systems of race and gender oppression. In this interview she is asked by PBS's Charlie Rose what it is like for her to encounter racism. In true Morrison fashion she turns the question on its head, and places the onus for explaining racism back into the hands of White people. She asks Rose what he thinks of racism, why do Whites hold onto, and what are they going to do about it ending it. She rejects the notion that racism is simply something that Black people must grapple with, insisting, demanding, that White people also grapple with it. Fearless. Brilliant. Powerful.
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"Take away (the racist construct, i.e., institutional supports/affirmations), what have you just little old you ... are you still smarter? ..."
You won't even have to close your eyes to see who, on this site, she is talking to! 
from a brilliant woman. "It feels crazy, it is crazy"....loved it. " Neurosis that no one is dealing with". LOVED IT!. Link bookmarked also.