Toni Morrison: Fear Of Losing White Privilege Led To Trump’s Election

[emilynghiem]

Hitlery Clinton is a white privileged globalist....so how would she have helped the "little people" exactly????

She can still lead the party to clean up the messes and broken promises
they have used to buy and sell voters and supporters down the river

 

[OldLady]

“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.”

As Morrison explains it, the subconscious fear of losing the “comfort of being naturally better than,” the comfort of not being followed in a department store for instance, was a huge motivator for many White Americans.

Morrison argues that white Americans and particularly white men are so afraid of the collapse of white privilege that they “flocked to a political platform that supports and translates violence against the defenseless as strength.”

She concludes:

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.​

Morrison’s take on the election is one that has been echoed by many other commentators, including Van Jones, who described it as a “whitelash against a changing country.” As the uptick in hate crimes across the country and Trump’s appointment of controversial figures like Steve Bannon to his cabinet continues, it becomes clearer and clearer and clearer that race most definitely played a role in this election.

Read the full essay at The New Yorker.

Toni Morrison: Fear Of Losing White Privilege Led To Trump's Election

Amen! I couldn't agree more!

So who is the broad anyways, what makes her special, well except she says crap you want to hear? How come none of theses shitheads ever mentions the hildabitch was endorsed by the communist?

The "broad" is a great American writer, my favorite was Song of Solomon.
She doesn't know why people voted for Trump anymore than anyone else does, probably everyone has slightly different reasons why they did.

 

[emilynghiem]

“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.”

As Morrison explains it, the subconscious fear of losing the “comfort of being naturally better than,” the comfort of not being followed in a department store for instance, was a huge motivator for many White Americans.

Morrison argues that white Americans and particularly white men are so afraid of the collapse of white privilege that they “flocked to a political platform that supports and translates violence against the defenseless as strength.”

She concludes:

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.​

Morrison’s take on the election is one that has been echoed by many other commentators, including Van Jones, who described it as a “whitelash against a changing country.” As the uptick in hate crimes across the country and Trump’s appointment of controversial figures like Steve Bannon to his cabinet continues, it becomes clearer and clearer and clearer that race most definitely played a role in this election.

Read the full essay at The New Yorker.

Toni Morrison: Fear Of Losing White Privilege Led To Trump's Election

Amen! I couldn't agree more!

Lakota, I'm going to be lazy tonight and not read all the messages regarding this post and address directly, the topic of "white-privilege" fears. Contrary to what Toni Morrison

“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.”

As Morrison explains it, the subconscious fear of losing the “comfort of being naturally better than,” the comfort of not being followed in a department store for instance, was a huge motivator for many White Americans.

Morrison argues that white Americans and particularly white men are so afraid of the collapse of white privilege that they “flocked to a political platform that supports and translates violence against the defenseless as strength.”

She concludes:

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.​

Morrison’s take on the election is one that has been echoed by many other commentators, including Van Jones, who described it as a “whitelash against a changing country.” As the uptick in hate crimes across the country and Trump’s appointment of controversial figures like Steve Bannon to his cabinet continues, it becomes clearer and clearer and clearer that race most definitely played a role in this election.

Read the full essay at The New Yorker.

Toni Morrison: Fear Of Losing White Privilege Led To Trump's Election

Amen! I couldn't agree more!

Lakota, I'm going be lazy tonight and ignore the various responses and go directly to the main topic you presented.
Toni Morrison is wrong in her assertion in two things:
1. That whites somehow have "white-privilege."
2. That whites were in fear of losing their fictional white-privileges.
No one I have personally known had any privileges, all have had to start at the bottom of any jobs they obtained, worked hard and scraped their way up, if they stayed with the job they had, if they even had jobs. All around the area I'm presently at, I have yet to see anyone of color standing on a corner with a cardboard sign, it would seem that it is exclusively the "privileged-whites" that have that honor. You can't be in fear of what you don't have.
Evangelicals, Catholics, Baptists, Hindus, Sikhs, other religious organization members, farmers, et cetera, voted for Trump in large numbers because they saw what was happening to Europe with its "open-border" policy. Riots, large numbers of rapes where almost none occurred in the past, no-go zones where even law enforcement is afraid to enter, the future destruction of centuries of cultures and heritage. They see the handwriting on the wall for Europe, which will eventually become Islamic Theocracies, run by religious clerics, not voters (history has shown what happens to nations that open their homes and lands to Islamists (Lebanon). Turkey, once a beacon for being a secular Muslim nation, is now purging itself of secular people and replacing them with Islamists.
Inner-city blacks, Hispanics and "whites" who have difficulty getting jobs are desperate for a candidate who insists that changes will come and jobs will follow. They are aware of how NAFTA destroyed their jobs. People (black and white) in previous mining communities have not recovered from the shutdown of the mines and voted for Trump because he assured them he would get them working again (personally, I believe they just need retraining into other occupations).
So, there's no "white-privilege" and as such their is no fear of whites losing what they don't have.
The far left has been trying to gradually inch us into a Marxist ideology whereby those who think and speak freely, must speak only what the far left allows them to say or, be oppressed and once Marxism takes over, be persecuted and worse.

Dear LuckyDuck Maryland Patriot and others who don't se e or invoke White Privilege:

The white privilege I have se en perpetuate imbalance in economics and govt and law
1. the CLASS division betwe en teaching people EMPOWERMENT
and EQUAL AUTHORITY through law, either using the CONSTITUTION or CHRISTIAN law to
give power back to the people to live by and enforced laws DIRECLTY through word and action

Not all people have this

My Democrat and liberal friends who don't have Christian/Constitutional faith
SUFFER a SEVERE imbalance in power and representation
against Christians and Constitutionalists who DO INVOKE THIS AUTHORITY
by knowledge and exercising/enforcing laws both individually and collective as a group!

2. LACK of ownership/experience with PROPERTY and BUSINESS management,
financial and credit access and resources/support.

BIG FACTOR in the race issue: because Blacks were deprived of property ownership
and only in the past century quit being treated as property themselves.

Now the voters are still treated as field slaves begging and competing for
favors granted to house slaves that kiss up to the corporate masters.

this is still going on: dividing the rich blaming the po or from
the poor blaming the rich, when the issue is really WHO on BOTH SIDES
has been abusing public money, authority and resources to scam ALL TAXPAYERS
and hiding behind the fingerpointing game, always blaming the other side,
in order to get away with these abuses without check.

There are other areas but these two are key
to ending this whole class war blamed on White Privilege.

And yes it is tied to Europeans imposing and following LINEAR systems of law
passing property and control down the Patrilineal side of their families and estates.

which explains the SEXISM going on, backlash again "white males"

The collective cultures of the African/Latin/Asian communities
put more emphasis on relations between individual and collective identity as a whole.
So by divide and conquer, this keep groups from representing their interests collectively.

the shared responsibility approach is what we can use to break out of these patterns
of tribal competition for turf and control.

 

[NYcarbineer]

She's wrong. The white privilege people don't vote Democrat.

 

[OKTexas]

“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.”

As Morrison explains it, the subconscious fear of losing the “comfort of being naturally better than,” the comfort of not being followed in a department store for instance, was a huge motivator for many White Americans.

Morrison argues that white Americans and particularly white men are so afraid of the collapse of white privilege that they “flocked to a political platform that supports and translates violence against the defenseless as strength.”

She concludes:

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.​

Morrison’s take on the election is one that has been echoed by many other commentators, including Van Jones, who described it as a “whitelash against a changing country.” As the uptick in hate crimes across the country and Trump’s appointment of controversial figures like Steve Bannon to his cabinet continues, it becomes clearer and clearer and clearer that race most definitely played a role in this election.

Read the full essay at The New Yorker.

Toni Morrison: Fear Of Losing White Privilege Led To Trump's Election

Amen! I couldn't agree more!

So who is the broad anyways, what makes her special, well except she says crap you want to hear? How come none of theses shitheads ever mentions the hildabitch was endorsed by the communist?

The "broad" is a great American writer, my favorite was Song of Solomon.
She doesn't know why people voted for Trump anymore than anyone else does, probably everyone has slightly different reasons why they did.

Maybe she should stick to what she knows.

 

[OldLady]

“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.”

As Morrison explains it, the subconscious fear of losing the “comfort of being naturally better than,” the comfort of not being followed in a department store for instance, was a huge motivator for many White Americans.

Morrison argues that white Americans and particularly white men are so afraid of the collapse of white privilege that they “flocked to a political platform that supports and translates violence against the defenseless as strength.”

She concludes:

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.​

Morrison’s take on the election is one that has been echoed by many other commentators, including Van Jones, who described it as a “whitelash against a changing country.” As the uptick in hate crimes across the country and Trump’s appointment of controversial figures like Steve Bannon to his cabinet continues, it becomes clearer and clearer and clearer that race most definitely played a role in this election.

Read the full essay at The New Yorker.

Toni Morrison: Fear Of Losing White Privilege Led To Trump's Election

Amen! I couldn't agree more!

So who is the broad anyways, what makes her special, well except she says crap you want to hear? How come none of theses shitheads ever mentions the hildabitch was endorsed by the communist?

The "broad" is a great American writer, my favorite was Song of Solomon.
She doesn't know why people voted for Trump anymore than anyone else does, probably everyone has slightly different reasons why they did.

Maybe she should stick to what she knows.

I know, DAMN these women writers having political opinions. Disgusting.

 

[OKTexas]

“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.”

As Morrison explains it, the subconscious fear of losing the “comfort of being naturally better than,” the comfort of not being followed in a department store for instance, was a huge motivator for many White Americans.

Morrison argues that white Americans and particularly white men are so afraid of the collapse of white privilege that they “flocked to a political platform that supports and translates violence against the defenseless as strength.”

She concludes:

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.​

Morrison’s take on the election is one that has been echoed by many other commentators, including Van Jones, who described it as a “whitelash against a changing country.” As the uptick in hate crimes across the country and Trump’s appointment of controversial figures like Steve Bannon to his cabinet continues, it becomes clearer and clearer and clearer that race most definitely played a role in this election.

Read the full essay at The New Yorker.

Toni Morrison: Fear Of Losing White Privilege Led To Trump's Election

Amen! I couldn't agree more!

So who is the broad anyways, what makes her special, well except she says crap you want to hear? How come none of theses shitheads ever mentions the hildabitch was endorsed by the communist?

The "broad" is a great American writer, my favorite was Song of Solomon.
She doesn't know why people voted for Trump anymore than anyone else does, probably everyone has slightly different reasons why they did.

Maybe she should stick to what she knows.

I know, DAMN these women writers having political opinions. Disgusting.

She's no more knowledgeable than lady gaga or miley cyrus.

 

[OldLady]

“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.”

As Morrison explains it, the subconscious fear of losing the “comfort of being naturally better than,” the comfort of not being followed in a department store for instance, was a huge motivator for many White Americans.

Morrison argues that white Americans and particularly white men are so afraid of the collapse of white privilege that they “flocked to a political platform that supports and translates violence against the defenseless as strength.”

She concludes:

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.​

Morrison’s take on the election is one that has been echoed by many other commentators, including Van Jones, who described it as a “whitelash against a changing country.” As the uptick in hate crimes across the country and Trump’s appointment of controversial figures like Steve Bannon to his cabinet continues, it becomes clearer and clearer and clearer that race most definitely played a role in this election.

Read the full essay at The New Yorker.

Toni Morrison: Fear Of Losing White Privilege Led To Trump's Election

Amen! I couldn't agree more!

So who is the broad anyways, what makes her special, well except she says crap you want to hear? How come none of theses shitheads ever mentions the hildabitch was endorsed by the communist?

The "broad" is a great American writer, my favorite was Song of Solomon.
She doesn't know why people voted for Trump anymore than anyone else does, probably everyone has slightly different reasons why they did.

Maybe she should stick to what she knows.

I know, DAMN these women writers having political opinions. Disgusting.

She's no more knowledgeable than lady gaga or miley cyrus.

I have no idea what Lady Gaga or Miley Cyrus knows about politics, but Morrison has every right to her opinion, even if it does disagree with yours. She's an awesome writer, very famous and a lot of people are interested in her point of view. No one said you had to be.
You should check out some of her stuff, though. She's a magical writer.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Right when I think the left's tantrums can't get any more stupid, some idiot steps up and shows that they can.

Notice that it's only liberals saying white is naturally better. What the hell is wrong with some people?

It's a mental disorder... sure beats facing reality I guess.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

“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.”

As Morrison explains it, the subconscious fear of losing the “comfort of being naturally better than,” the comfort of not being followed in a department store for instance, was a huge motivator for many White Americans.

Morrison argues that white Americans and particularly white men are so afraid of the collapse of white privilege that they “flocked to a political platform that supports and translates violence against the defenseless as strength.”

She concludes:

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.​

Morrison’s take on the election is one that has been echoed by many other commentators, including Van Jones, who described it as a “whitelash against a changing country.” As the uptick in hate crimes across the country and Trump’s appointment of controversial figures like Steve Bannon to his cabinet continues, it becomes clearer and clearer and clearer that race most definitely played a role in this election.

Read the full essay at The New Yorker.

Toni Morrison: Fear Of Losing White Privilege Led To Trump's Election

Amen! I couldn't agree more!

So who is the broad anyways, what makes her special, well except she says crap you want to hear? How come none of theses shitheads ever mentions the hildabitch was endorsed by the communist?

The "broad" is a great American writer, my favorite was Song of Solomon.
She doesn't know why people voted for Trump anymore than anyone else does, probably everyone has slightly different reasons why they did.

Maybe she should stick to what she knows.

I know, DAMN these women writers having political opinions. Disgusting.

She's no more knowledgeable than lady gaga or miley cyrus.

She's seems equally profound.

 

[jc456]

“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.”

As Morrison explains it, the subconscious fear of losing the “comfort of being naturally better than,” the comfort of not being followed in a department store for instance, was a huge motivator for many White Americans.

Morrison argues that white Americans and particularly white men are so afraid of the collapse of white privilege that they “flocked to a political platform that supports and translates violence against the defenseless as strength.”

She concludes:

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.​

Morrison’s take on the election is one that has been echoed by many other commentators, including Van Jones, who described it as a “whitelash against a changing country.” As the uptick in hate crimes across the country and Trump’s appointment of controversial figures like Steve Bannon to his cabinet continues, it becomes clearer and clearer and clearer that race most definitely played a role in this election.

Read the full essay at The New Yorker.

Toni Morrison: Fear Of Losing White Privilege Led To Trump's Election

Amen! I couldn't agree more!

It's not only that, but to be real honest. No one, and I mean NO ONE could have watched those debates, and said Yeah--Donald Trump is more knowledgeable and experienced than Hillary Clinton, which is usually how we pick our Presidents.

They ignored it, and it's mainly because they just could not stand the thought of the 1st woman President of the United States. They just don't want to openly admit it. But it's there, and they proved it on election night.

We are 100 years behind the United Kingdom and other countries in this world when it comes to misogynists. And clearly it runs deep on both sides of the isle.

or perhaps people didn't want a candidate aligned with a political party since neither has done their jobs. Just saying, you are in grey matter there bubba.

 

[OKTexas]

So who is the broad anyways, what makes her special, well except she says crap you want to hear? How come none of theses shitheads ever mentions the hildabitch was endorsed by the communist?

The "broad" is a great American writer, my favorite was Song of Solomon.
She doesn't know why people voted for Trump anymore than anyone else does, probably everyone has slightly different reasons why they did.

Maybe she should stick to what she knows.

I know, DAMN these women writers having political opinions. Disgusting.

She's no more knowledgeable than lady gaga or miley cyrus.

I have no idea what Lady Gaga or Miley Cyrus knows about politics, but Morrison has every right to her opinion, even if it does disagree with yours. She's an awesome writer, very famous and a lot of people are interested in her point of view. No one said you had to be.
You should check out some of her stuff, though. She's a magical writer.

Her opinion is worth as much as yours or mine, and if that's an example of her magic, I'll pass. Any idiot can echo the MSM.

 

[OldLady]

The "broad" is a great American writer, my favorite was Song of Solomon.
She doesn't know why people voted for Trump anymore than anyone else does, probably everyone has slightly different reasons why they did.

Maybe she should stick to what she knows.

I know, DAMN these women writers having political opinions. Disgusting.

She's no more knowledgeable than lady gaga or miley cyrus.

I have no idea what Lady Gaga or Miley Cyrus knows about politics, but Morrison has every right to her opinion, even if it does disagree with yours. She's an awesome writer, very famous and a lot of people are interested in her point of view. No one said you had to be.
You should check out some of her stuff, though. She's a magical writer.

Her opinion is worth as much as yours or mine, and if that's an example of her magic, I'll pass. Any idiot can echo the MSM.

Naw, I meant her novels. I'm done discussing it. It hurts to hear her disparaged for no good reason.

 

[OKTexas]

Maybe she should stick to what she knows.

I know, DAMN these women writers having political opinions. Disgusting.

She's no more knowledgeable than lady gaga or miley cyrus.

I have no idea what Lady Gaga or Miley Cyrus knows about politics, but Morrison has every right to her opinion, even if it does disagree with yours. She's an awesome writer, very famous and a lot of people are interested in her point of view. No one said you had to be.
You should check out some of her stuff, though. She's a magical writer.

Her opinion is worth as much as yours or mine, and if that's an example of her magic, I'll pass. Any idiot can echo the MSM.

Naw, I meant her novels. I'm done discussing it. It hurts to hear her disparaged for no good reason.

So her disparaging others that she doesn't know doesn't bother you in the least. Hypocrite much?

 

[hadit]

We elect a black president:

"All you white people is racist"!

We elect a white president:

"All you white people is racist"!

Seriously, THAT'S the best you can come up with? Yelling "racist" is the cheap and easy way out, and doesn't allow for self reflection. If they keep this up and keep putting up dull establishment candidates, democrats will continue to lose. I mean, how long are minorities going to vote democrat and get slapped in the face before they decide to do something different?

 

[2aguy]

“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.”

As Morrison explains it, the subconscious fear of losing the “comfort of being naturally better than,” the comfort of not being followed in a department store for instance, was a huge motivator for many White Americans.

Morrison argues that white Americans and particularly white men are so afraid of the collapse of white privilege that they “flocked to a political platform that supports and translates violence against the defenseless as strength.”

She concludes:

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.​

Morrison’s take on the election is one that has been echoed by many other commentators, including Van Jones, who described it as a “whitelash against a changing country.” As the uptick in hate crimes across the country and Trump’s appointment of controversial figures like Steve Bannon to his cabinet continues, it becomes clearer and clearer and clearer that race most definitely played a role in this election.

Read the full essay at The New Yorker.

Toni Morrison: Fear Of Losing White Privilege Led To Trump's Election

Amen! I couldn't agree more!

She is off of her meds.....does her nurse know she is wandering around again? How did this woman ever get famous anyway....?

 

[2aguy]

Do the excuses ever stop? Have Liberals ever heard of the concept of owning your failure and learning from it?

No.

 

[emilynghiem]

“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.”

As Morrison explains it, the subconscious fear of losing the “comfort of being naturally better than,” the comfort of not being followed in a department store for instance, was a huge motivator for many White Americans.

Morrison argues that white Americans and particularly white men are so afraid of the collapse of white privilege that they “flocked to a political platform that supports and translates violence against the defenseless as strength.”

She concludes:

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.​

Morrison’s take on the election is one that has been echoed by many other commentators, including Van Jones, who described it as a “whitelash against a changing country.” As the uptick in hate crimes across the country and Trump’s appointment of controversial figures like Steve Bannon to his cabinet continues, it becomes clearer and clearer and clearer that race most definitely played a role in this election.

Read the full essay at The New Yorker.

Toni Morrison: Fear Of Losing White Privilege Led To Trump's Election

Amen! I couldn't agree more!

It's not only that, but to be real honest. No one, and I mean NO ONE could have watched those debates, and said Yeah--Donald Trump is more knowledgeable and experienced than Hillary Clinton, which is usually how we pick our Presidents.

They ignored it, and it's mainly because they just could not stand the thought of the 1st woman President of the United States. They just don't want to openly admit it. But it's there, and they proved it on election night.

We are 100 years behind the United Kingdom and other countries in this world when it comes to misogynists. And clearly it runs deep on both sides of the isle.

Dear oreo
Then maybe we need to split up the Executive Office to have two offices for internal and external.

Let less experienced Obama and Trump types work on internal domestic reform plans the first cycle,
before running for external executive the second time that has foreign policy and global economy as the focus.

Clinton attempted to do this as SOS, but with the money it takes to cut deals to position oneself politically,
this runs into such conflicts it gets clouded with political bias from one party interest or another, that it
compromising the ability to represent the full nation.

if we have a dual system and encourage candidates from mixed parties to mentor each other
to be better experienced leaders, checking and correcting each other instead of competing to find or hide faults,
then maybe we can get somewhere different
rather than only running horses in a race like Obama Romney Clinton and Trump, who can pull billions of dollars and support to campaign for office.

 

[emilynghiem]

P.S. oreo Obama didn't have as much experience either but was attacked as a community organizer.
Obviously, people care more about politics, and party principle that aligns with their BELIEFS.

With all Clinton's experience, the fact that she would still ABUSE corporate power backing her
to SILENCE supporters within her own party, what does that tell you would happen to everyone else?

So that ABUSE of govt for corporate-interest politics is what people like me were voting against.

As a Democrat, I still believed Clinton would win anyway because this political front game is
so unstoppable. I still can't believe it got beaten with more votes at the polls saying NO to that.

All the experience in the world doing things the same way, just what is "politically convenient"
to stay in govt careers and office only goes so far. It's good for following orders and implementing
what reforms and changes best serve the people.

but it's HORRIBLE when it comes to people who hijack parties and govt and
OBSTRUCT change because it's not politically safe, and they want to keep the status quo.

Trump doesn't have the answers either, as neither did Obama.

For the grassroots independent approach to work, people need to DIY.
And Clinton suppressed the grassroots greens and workers with that ability.

So as much as her experience works for her, the flipside worked against her.

We can still set up a system for the workers on both left and right to take
back ownership and quit being enslaved to party politics buying out votes with empty promises
that can't be fulfilled at the top.

So once we set up tracks, then ANY LEADERS can rise to the top and prove
themselves with Experience in the RIGHT kind of building, not the political corporate cronyism.

Both Tea Party and Occupy opposed the cronyism on both left and right.
We organize corrections and solutions to that, then leaders can gain
the right kind of experience managing SUSTAINABLE selfgovt, not this partisan hacking crap!

 

[Clementine]

I know, DAMN these women writers having political opinions. Disgusting.

You instantly use the liberal tactic of insinuating that anyone disagreeing is either racist, sexist or otherwise mean.

What does her being a woman have to do with anything? For her to claim that Trump voters supported him because they are afraid of losing their white privilege is ridiculous. Are you unaware that people of all races, ethnicities, and genders support him? Clearly, there are issues that concern people across the board and they have nothing to do with race or gender.

She is pushing the tired old narrative that all on the right are racist, bigoted, misogynistic Islamaphobes. She is getting called on it, just like the white men spouting this bullshit.

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


That statement doesn't begin to make sense and it meant to instill anger in people. Telling minorities that whites are 'naturally better than' makes it sound like a fact that whites are superior. That would mean there is nothing that can be done to make people naturally equal. So, she is suggesting that Mother Nature, the queen of the racists, showed bias from the start. What could possibly make up for this? Oh, I know. How about making people feel justified in mistreating or even killing whites. And demanding reparations since whites are declared guilty at birth. After all, being born white isn't just hard to give up, it's ******* impossible.