Post by: AngelOfThyNight on May 23, 2022, 11:49:30 AM
Shortly after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison wrote in The New Yorker: "Unlike any nation in Europe, the United States holds whiteness as the unifying force. Here, for many people, the definition of 'Americanness' is color." Reflecting on efforts -- largely by White men -- to define themselves by sustaining that poisonous definition, Morrison argues that those "who are prepared to abandon their humanity out of fear of black men and women, suggest the true horror of lost status."
Source: What a Nobel laureate's take on Trump reveals (https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/22/opinions/opinion-weekly-column-carr/index.html)