David Codrea: Novelist’s violent wishes exemplify ‘progressive’ paradox on guns and more

Continuing with the trend of privileged “progressives” blaming bigotry where alternative explanations for inequities exist, Nobel, Pulitzer and Presidential Freedom prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison uttered a shocking but nonetheless revealing set of criteria for declaring racism over. The exchange came in an interview The Telegraph conducted earlier this month with the 84-year-old Morrison in her lower Manhattan apartment.

“People keep saying, 'We need to have a conversation about race,’” Morrison said. “This is the conversation. I want to see a cop shoot a white unarmed teenager in the back. And I want to see a white man convicted for raping a black woman. Then when you ask me, 'Is it over?’, I will say yes.”

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She must not have heard about “Gilbert Collar, a white, unarmed 18-year-old ... shot and killed Oct. 6, 2012, by Officer Trevis Austin, who is black, in Mobile, Alabama.” She must not have heard about Dillon Taylor.

And as for Morrison’s rape wishes, she must have missed the convictions and life sentences imposed on four white men in Tallahassee for a 1959 rape of a black woman. By her reckoning, racism was "over" back then.

Of course her stated conditions are ridiculous. These incidents don’t prove or mean a thing other than they happened. For Morrison to want violent death and rape to happen again, just to make some kind of ignorant and hateful point, is absurd, although it does nicely demonstrate critical thinking or even basic Google skills aren't necessary to receive prestigious establishment art and achievement awards.

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