edto rid themselves of the funkiness of being black. They were shut off by thewhites because they did not belong, but shut themselves off from their ownblack race. To the blacks in The Bluest Eye, "Anger is better(than shame).There is a sense of being in anger. A reality of presence. An awareness ofworth"(50). the blacks are not strong, only aggressive; they are notcompassionate, only polite; they were not good, but well behave; theysubstituted good grammar for intellect, and rearranged lies to make themtruth(205). Most of all, they faked love where felt powerless to hate, anddestroyed what love they did have with anger. Toni Morrison tells this story toshow the sadness in the way that the blacks were compelled to place theiranger on their own families and on their blackness instead of on whites whocause their misery. Although they didn't know this, "The Thing to fear(and thushate) was the Thing that made her beautiful, and not us"(74), whiteness....
