Toni Morrison Wonders What’s Wrong With People Nostalgic For The1950s

Morrison’s new book, Home, treats what she thinks of as the real era: “‘I think we have erased the truth about the ’50s, which was the Korean War — which was never called a war, we called it a police action,’ she added. ‘It was violent. There was a lot of slaughter of black people during the ’50s.'”