Whose Eye is Actually the Bluest?

Confronting racism can be one of the toughest things to encounter. Whether it be a sickening comment, or the way you see or view a hateful symbol. Especially when it's tucked away in the closet but always peeking through the cracks of the door. Racism is not something people can try to hide now, now that time is evolving and social and societal acceptances begin to shift and change.

In the Bluest Eye, Black women and Black men are faced with inequality living amongst their White neighbors. The amount of pressure society yields on its children forces eyes to look down and smiles to smear. How bad does it have to get for our Black children to desire physical features of those that are white? Uncomfortable enough in their own skin that they would desire to be someone else; Someone that was them, but did not look like them.

In The Bluest Eye, Pecola admires Shirley Temple on the side of her cup. Desiring to be like her, aspiring to ingest her culture as she drinks her white milk. "We knew she was fond of the Shirley Temple cup and took every opportunity to drink milk out of it" (Morrison 23), Morrison wrote describing Pecola's interest In the cup. Washing down White culture, and washing away Black culture, she figured if she looked like her, then her woes would disappear.