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sheshe2

(88,096 posts) Mon Nov 21, 2016, 01:55 PM Nov 2016

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

“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.

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Toni Morrison: Fear Of Losing White Privilege Led To Trumps Election (Original Post) sheshe2 Nov 2016 OP

Recommended. guillaumeb Nov 2016 #1

Thank you, guillaumeb. sheshe2 Nov 2016 #4

This cilla4progress Nov 2016 #2

Yes. Also the disparity between rich and poor is so wide it is almost impossible to bridge. The Wielding Truth Nov 2016 #3

K.&.R. 2naSalit Nov 2016 #5

SO VERY TRUE heaven05 Nov 2016 #6

Uuuhmmmm sheshe2 Nov 2016 #9

Yes! This is what I've seen in everyone I know who voted Trump radical noodle Nov 2016 #7

Yes. I have a person I work with closely who is like this. Quayblue Nov 2016 #13

k&r Starry Messenger Nov 2016 #8

this is exactly what it was. people uncomfortable certain types of people JI7 Nov 2016 #10

Toni Morrison is such a great writer. lovemydog Nov 2016 #11

Toni Morrison is a gifted woman. sheshe2 Nov 2016 #12

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)

1. Recommended.

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Mon Nov 21, 2016, 02:11 PM

Nov 2016

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

(88,096 posts)

4. Thank you, guillaumeb.

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 21, 2016, 02:19 PM

Nov 2016

You get it.

cilla4progress

(25,972 posts)

2. This

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Mon Nov 21, 2016, 02:13 PM

Nov 2016

Nails it

The Wielding Truth

(11,423 posts)

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

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Mon Nov 21, 2016, 02:15 PM

Nov 2016

2naSalit

(93,331 posts)

5. K.&.R.

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Mon Nov 21, 2016, 02:38 PM

Nov 2016

heaven05

(18,124 posts)

6. SO VERY TRUE

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Mon Nov 21, 2016, 03:24 PM

Nov 2016

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

sheshe2

(88,096 posts)

9. Uuuhmmmm

Reply to heaven05 (Reply #6)

Mon Nov 21, 2016, 06:20 PM

Nov 2016

radical noodle

(8,802 posts)

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

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Mon Nov 21, 2016, 05:47 PM

Nov 2016

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

(1,045 posts)

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

Reply to radical noodle (Reply #7)

Thu Nov 24, 2016, 09:40 AM

Nov 2016

I decided to handle her with a long spoon.

Starry Messenger

(32,375 posts)

8. k&r

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Mon Nov 21, 2016, 06:13 PM

Nov 2016

JI7

(90,844 posts)

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

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Tue Nov 22, 2016, 01:28 AM

Nov 2016

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

lovemydog

(11,833 posts)

11. Toni Morrison is such a great writer.

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 02:34 PM

Nov 2016

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

(88,096 posts)

12. Toni Morrison is a gifted woman.

Reply to lovemydog (Reply #11)

Wed Nov 23, 2016, 02:57 PM

Nov 2016

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.

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