The Bluest Eye
The bluest eye is novel but renowned African American Author Toni Morrison. The novel is told from several points of view but the relevant character to this blog is Pecola Breedlove. Pecola in the novel is a black child obsessed with having blue eyes because she believes that with Blue Eyes she can be beautiful. Pecola cannot see her own beauty and self value in the novel because her as well as her community's standard beauty is based on whiteness something Pecola can never achieve. It is this that drives her insane in the conclusion of Morrison's novel because it is her only escape from a world and herself that thinks her ugly
It doesnt get much more tragic than the inability to love oneself and then i saw this
i cant tell you how much this hurt me watching both of these videos.
This is what self-hate does to people.
Almost or over 10000 dollars, endangering or possibly sacraficing her vision, the pain, having to deal with constant medication, the individual comments and in the end she is still unsatisfied wit her eyes. The most painful part of this video is that she's learning the hard way about how she was conditioned by eurocentric beauty standards to feel as though she was beautiful enough as she was naturally. Sometimes in life when we hear about beauty standards we dont really give it much attention until something like this confronts us. Im really proud of this sista for being brave enough to come out and talk about this and how it has effected her.
Thankfully she's lucky and she can her eye implants removed. She's Half There
2 comments:
I have to admit that I cried a little when I saw the first video. This reminded me of something my daughter went through when she was 4/5 years old. She started complaining about being too dark, having nappy hair and not liking black people because they were "ugly". Come to find out some of the white children in her preschool were making fun of her and a couple of my in-laws (at the time) kept mentioning how dark she was. I was livid. I had to do damage control for two years! My daughter still catches hell for being "too dark" and for having nappy hair, but she's a lot more comfortable in her skin. I still have to do damage control though. Thanks for blogging this bro.
Wow! I had no idea such a procedure existed. God bless the sista for telling the truth. Thank you for sharing her story. I'm still trippin from watching it. Wow. It would be so lovely if we sisters could appreciate the uniqueness of our ebony beauty. Your blog is great!
Robminx
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