In the lecture on Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, Professor Stephen Whitaker, a professor of English & Theater at Scranton University, claims that Morrison wants to answer the question ‘what is necessary for us to know to understand ourselves as Americans?’ He supports his claim by first speaking about something that is essential to understanding us as Americans; ancient racial stereotyping that used to occur all over the world. Then, he asserts the philosophical concept of all humans possessing two horses, one representing reason and goodness and the other representing passion and disorder and our constant battle in keeping both sides balanced, these horses are described as dark and white implying that is a racial stereotype even when describing
