Lauren





"Black People Are Scary"

**PLEASE WATCH FROM THE TIME __4:17 to 5:30__**
the rest of the video is irrelevant media type="youtube" key="ZsUMYcRfSGc&hl=en" height="379" width="452"  =="//The Bluest Eye// was my effort to say something about that; to say something about why she had not, or possibly ever would have, the experience of what she possessed and also why she prayed for so radical an alteration. Implicit in her desire was racial self-loathing. And twenty years later I was still wondering about how one learns that. Who told her? Who made her feel that it was better to be a freak than what she was? Who had looked at her and found her so wanting, so small a weight on the beauty scale?" Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, pp. 209-210. ==   References:  Vogue image: [|http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y279/NrllAless/blog/news/vogue-worlds-next-top-models.jpg   Sophia Loren: [|http://www.facade.com/celebrity/photo/Sophia_Loren.jpg   Twiggy: http://drx.typepad.com/psychotherapyblog/images/2007/08/22/twiggy.jpg  Kate Moss: http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2008-04/37592405.jpg  Scarlett Johansson: http://www.blackysky.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/scarlett-johansson-ebay-oxfam.png  Jean Harlow: [|http://stylefrizz.com/img/jean-harlow-by-george-hurre-vanity-fair.jpg  <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> The Birth of Venus : http://vrcoll.fa.pitt.edu/uag/Art-Anytime-Page/Lochoff-pages/images/15-Boticelli-Venus.jpg <span style="color: rgb(6, 3, 7); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">

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