The Fatal Plague of Humanity: White Rage
Reading Toni Morrison is more relevant than ever.
I still remember the deadly silence in the classroom while we were thinking about the question in chief. The professor looked at our faces respectively and repeated her words by emphasizing each syllable:
“How can you mentally reach to the point that killing your baby is your only choice?”
Literature has long been successful in portraying the historical, political, economic, social, and cultural realities of its time. Many writers have arisen the questions that societies are unable to confront. But, no issue has ever taken an existence like the one placed in Toni Morrison’s Beloved — a problem that sinks in your chest and prevents you from moving. Both physically and emotionally.
Some minutes had passed since our professor demanded an answer. Often somebody was participating in class discussions, but nobody had enough courage, experience, nor imagination to respond to that inquiry. We just couldn’t figure out how it’d be possible to kill our baby. Our imagination, collectively and individually, failed.
While the professor was scanning our faces, my classmate’s mumble broke the silence: “You can’t. You just can’t reach that point.”
