The Color of Hate

Eye struggled with the concepts I was faced with and the words that I read in The Bluest Eye. I could not bear the discrimination, the women's sexualization, the rape, the overall lack of happiness within the story. But my mind was racked the most by the reality of it all. Pecola's story of how she becomes victim to society due to her lack of power is very real.

"It's the same hate that's caused wars from religion
Gender to skin color the complexion of your pigment
The same fight that lead people to walk-outs and sit-ins,
It's human rights for everybody
There is no difference"~Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Same Love

Pecola is raped and impregnated by her own father, abused by both of her parents, and has close to zero friends because of her family’s status. Thus, she carries with her the shame of her family which causes society to look down on her. The society which victimizes her and uses her to feel better about themselves. It is not her fault that she is raped, yet the ideological lie that she “asked for it” comes up from an adult within the book showing the amount of insensitivity that can come from a person. The society uses her to create their own personal “fantasy” where they are “strong”, “well behaved”, and “mature” people while in reality they are not. We are not. This issue of blaming others and being too much of a coward to face the reality of our situations is an issue prevalent today. We must not shy away from the harsh truths we are given but face them before “it’s much, much, much too late”.