Toni Morrison: Fear of losing white privilege led to Trump's election.
And she's right, because working class black people didn't respond to Trump's message. But white people did, from all economic backgrounds.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/toni-morrison-fear-of-losing-white-privilege-led-to-trumps-election_us_58330ee2e4b058ce7aac0964
“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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We still have the "white" privilege. Yes, we still have to deal with sexist bullshit, but we aren't generally called "welfare queens" or have people seem frightened when we get angry (dismissive, yes, but that's different than the perception of the "angry black woman"
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If nothing else, one can look to the history of the suffrage movement where some incredibly stupid women suggested giving black men the vote before giving it to white women was wrong. Look at the fact that while more white women get breast cancer, yet more black women die of it -- five a day. Look at how white women still on average make more per week than black men, and black women make less than that.
The situation is worse still for trans people of color.
your attention, it doesn't mean it's the ONLY element.
I too would like life to be simple, but, unfortunately, It's not. 
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Go figure. 
Hit the nail on the head! 
I have been watching football (Eagles) this year. And I was shocked (thanks to decades of effort from the likes of Jesse Jackson and others) at the number of black head football coaches (and coordinators) AND (starting) black quarterbacks. It has been eye-opening given the days when there were little or none (and guys like Warren Moon were worshiped). Plenty of line backers, tackles, and even wide-outs, but no one calling the plays.
In industry after industry, we have had to fight for our rightful places based on merit after being denied solely due to skin color. Yet doing this has been promoted by the detractors and the media as someone "taking" someone else's (a white's) job and "rightful place" in society.
I.e., the "natural order" was disrupted.
However if one were to take this fantastical scenario all the way out to some far future, they would simply devolve into typical Euro-descended ethnic maelstroms, not unlike what you have seen historically throughout European history.
Eliminating us (POC) eliminates one facet of "competition" that they wouldn't have to deal with. We have been easy low-hanging fruit to attempt to remove in order to gain advantage. However many of us descend from folks who had much deeper roots in this country than most European-descendants who are here today. I.e., those whose families only arrived here post-Civil War - generally in the late 19th & early 20th centuries.
You need to stop confusing it with incontrovertible fact.
