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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Source: The Huffington Post
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