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Beloved Anne Frank, Did She Have White Privilege!?!
The latest Twitter controversy on Anne Frank’s white privilege shocked everyone. But is this really so unreasonable? What is behind it all?
At the beginning of Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved, one can read the words
“Sixty Million and More.”
I didn’t know of Toni Morisson’s existence until I started my MA in American literature. And if you are like I was, let me inform you that Toni Morrison was an African-American writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
Beloved is one of many great novels written by her on the subject of the slavery of Black people in the United States of America.
When I opened the book, I was perplexed by the words “Sixty Million and more,” so I had to ask my teacher what that number represented. Her answer terrified me:
That number indicated the Africans and their descendants who died due to the Atlantic slave trade.
You heard that right!
I am not saying people who died due to slavery, but the number of people who died during the journey from Africa to reach America as prisoners.