Toni Morrison Keeps It Real About White Superiority

One thing I love about Toni Morrison is that she does not mince words. She's a proud Black woman and she isn't afraid to show it!

We were all shocked when Donald Trump won this year's presidential election. We're all pondering what's next for America. Some of us are worried. Some of us are angry but we can't let this set back for our country keep us down.

Toni was one of sixteen writers asked to do an op ed for The New Yorker to answer the question "What do we do now that Trump is our president?" Check it out.


Mourning for WhitenessBy Toni MorrisonThis is a serious project. All immigrants to the United States know (and knew) that if they want to become real, authentic Americans they must reduce their fealty to their native country and regard it as secondary, subordinate, in order to emphasize their whiteness. Unlike any nation in Europe, the United States holds whiteness as the unifying force. Here, for many people, the definition of “Americanness” is color.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. Rapidly lost. 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. CONTINUE...