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US leadership around the world and at home is at a crossroads | Opinion by Jane Greenway Carr

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Shortly after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison wrote in The New Yorker:"Unlike any nation in Europe, the United States holds whiteness as the unifying force. Here, for many people, the definition of 'Americanness' is color.

In Morrison's formulation, fear-driven devotion to racial status is more powerful to many White Americans than even self-interest, shame or any belief in humanity.

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