Tone Deaf Ivanka Trump Compares Herself To A Slave Using A Toni Morrison Quote

by | May 5, 2017 | Celebrities, News | 0 comments

Ivanka Trump is busy cashing in on her high profile as a Senior White House Advisor with a new book Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules of Success!

She has worked her whole adult life, of course, but the she really has no place telling others how to do things, this lady was born into unbelievable privilege so I doubt she has any advice useful in the real world…. And to make it worse she seems to have compared herself to a slave!

NPR’s Annalisa Quinn says of the book that it is:

 “a long simper of a book, full of advice so anodyne (‘I believe that we each get one life and it’s up to us to live it to the fullest’), you could almost scramble the sentences and come out with something just as coherent.”

“Trump’s lack of awareness, plus a habit of skimming from her sources, often results in spectacularly misapplied quotations — like one from Toni Morrison’s Beloved about the brutal psychological scars of slavery,”

And the quote from Toni Morrison she included:

“Are you a slave to your time or the master of it?”

Context Ivanka, have some f*cking decency! But of course we can’t expect her to understand that, can we?

Quinn also says the quote appeared “in cute faux-handwritten capitals” introducing the “working smarter.” chapter!

“Are you a slave to your time or the master of it?….Despite your best intentions, it’s easy to be reactive and get caught up in returning calls, attending meetings, answering e-mails…”

As Rawstory wrote:

Beloved, released in 1987, tells the story of Sethe — a freed slave haunted by the infant daughter whose throat she slashed rather than allow the girl to be raised as human chattel on a plantation. The book takes place more than a dozen years after the murder when a mute teenaged girl arrives in Sethe’s life and drives her insane.

Morrison — who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993 — dedicated Beloved to “Sixty Million and more,” a reference to the Africans and their descendants who died on slave ships or were killed as a result of the slave trade.

SHAKE MY DAMN HEAD!

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