ene. "Get wid it, nigger," said one of the white men. Nigger was repeated while the white men watched and laughed. This was fun to the white men and a racial embarrassing situation that neither one of them would forget for the blacks.Cholly went to buy a ticket to go to Macon. The salesman was very disrespectful and rude. The salesman insulted him with racial slurs because he was black. "I reckon I knows a lying nigger when I sees one, but jest in case you ain't, jest in case one of them mammies is really dyin' and wants to see her little old smoke before she meets her maker, I gone do it." (121) There was no need for the salesman to insult Cholly with remarks about him being a nigger. It is obvious that Cholly knows he is black. It pissed me off that someone you do not know accuses you of lying. "Cholly heard nothing. The insults were part of the nuisances of life, like lice." (121)Morrison showed many incidents of racism. Although, "The Bluest Eye" took place in 1941, there really is no difference today. In many respects, 1998 looks like 1941, in terms of the turning back of the clock on black progress.Elliott/ 5How can we have an anti-racism society? I think we are miseducated. In school, we learn little about Hispanic and African-American history. There is a perception in the United States that consists of all white people. If you let it be a white country everything is fine but if another race tries to challenge it, fear and denial occur. We need to realize that more than fifty- percent people of color will exist in the United States in the twenty-first century.We must struggle to ban discrimination in all of its forms. We also need to enforce all civil rights laws in the search for meaningful remedies to heal the damages of racism and cultural aggression. We need to have greater access to American society as a whole and to be considered equal with other groups within this global structure.We need to discuss ind...
