Covert Racism

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The bluest eye: An analysis of covert racism.
Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” is a story about the sad effects of racial discrimination, or better known as covert racism set in post-depression America. It’s the story of Pecola, A young girl who grows up in a family deeply scarred by racial segregation. Her father, abandoned at a tender age and damaged by the actions of two white men, defiles her twice, making her pregnant but the baby dies. Her mother is lame and due to a lifetime of isolation welcomes constant of beatings from Pecola’s father as a way of proving that she is imperfect and unwanted. She feels alive when doing heavy work in a white household (Morrison,139). Pecola also has issues about her ethnicity. She believes that she is ugly because of her race, and desires to have blue eyes so that she can be acceptable (Morison, N.p). In the end, she goes mad due to the damage caused by her traumatic life.
This tragic narrative is a real world template from which we can draw out parallels with what is happening in today’s society. Racism has taken a form that not only encourages the malignant treatment of people of color, but it also instills a fallacy in the fabric of society which portrays blacks as second-grade humans and whites as more valuable and more worthy of universal respect. This can be seen in the way government organizations treat the various races.
Police brutality against blacks is a common phenomenon, which points to the underlying fact that whites in today’s society attribute criminal culpability to blacks only (Claudia,72).

The notion is very dangerous since it instills the idea into the mind of every black individual that society expects only criminal behavior from them.
Schooling systems have also adopted the notion that black students are less capable of achieving academic excellence and therefore less worthy of being afforded adequate attention. Schools populated by a majority of black students are always underfunded compared to white dominated schools (Brown, N.p). It also makes the society believe that blacks are lazy and narrow-minded while whites are great people.
The cancer of racism will never be wiped out unless society takes up measures to ensure that regardless of race, everyone gets a fair and equal chance before the constitution and the law (Nots,15). Otherwise one day this will reach a tipping point beyond which there will only be destruction.
Works cited.
Bauer Nots. “Racism Portrayed in The Bluest Eye.” Cliffs Notes, Cliff Notes, 15 July 2007, www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/b/the-bluest-eye/book-summary.
Driefus,Claudia (September 11, 1994). “Chloe Wofford Talks about Toni Morrison”. The New York Times. pp. 72–75. Accessed 26 November 2016.
Toni Morrison. “The Bluest Eye.” The Bluest Eye, 1st ed., vol. 1, ser. 1, Vintage Books, New York, 1970, pp. 35–139, 1.Accessed: 26 November 2016.
Toni Morrison. “The Bluest Eye.” Sparknotes, B&N, 11 May 2014, www.sparknotes.com/lit/bluesteye/summary.html.Accessed:26 November 2016
Yawo Brown. “The Subtle Linguistics of Polite White Supremacy.” Medium, TheMagicalNegro.net, 14 Aug. 2015, medium.com/@YawoBrown/the-subtle-linguistics-of-polite-white-supremacy-3f83c907ffff#.uuvx7r3y4. Accessed: 26 November 2016.