[atypicaluser]

While I agree with you regarding Toni Morrison, I'm not sure where you're going with the 'almost seem racist in this context' remark.

When I read the article, I read the article, immediately jumping past the headline and lead graphic, not bothering to check who wrote the article before coming back here to read the comments. I only learned of Ms. Morrison's authorship from your top comment.

Outside the story's impression of poverty versus wealth in the 1940's, and without knowing who the author is, what gave you the idea this article had anything to do with race? Or that the person's notions you commented on 'almost seem racist'?

[rramadass]

While the article does not talk overtly about racial topics; the narrative of a young girl "scrubbing floors" in a "beautiful house" etc. were suggestive and on checking the author's name it became clear. Toni Morrison had been quite fearless and outspoken in her writings about race relations and other topics (see https://time.com/6143127/toni-morrison-book-bans/) and hence had courted her fair share of controversy. But for the commentator to suggest that she had a "cocooned" easy life thus invalidating her advice was plainly ludicrous and could only be interpreted as "almost seem racist in this context" since there was no logical reason for this bias.

From the article linked to above;

Her books do not sugarcoat or use euphemisms. And that is actually what people have trouble with.

Morrison books tend to be targeted because she is unrelenting in her belief that the very particular experiences of Black people are incredibly universal. Blackness is the center of the universe for her and for her readers, or for her imagined reader. And that is inappropriate or inadequate or unreasonable or unimaginable for some people.

[paganel]

Checking her wikipedia page I see that she went to university at 18 years of age and by age 34 she was already an editor, about what "scrubbing of the floors" are we talking about here? Doesn't look like she scrubbed any floors for a living in her adult life.

And as for the racist talk, I have people very close to me who also don't have an immaculate white skin, I'm talking about my mother and my mother's mother (my grandmother), does it make any difference? What skin color do your close-ones have?