Richard’s grandmother was always excessively beating him. From the beginning, Richard would not subdue himself to the white man like the other black people around. The white people knew that he was different from other black men. Whites were scared because Richard challenged the system that they had created to insure white supremacy. They feared Richard, and some of the white people felt it necessary to act out their racist feelings in order to cover up their fear.
Intimacy with that "nasty" blackness good white girls stay away from is what they seek. To white and other nonblack consumers, this gives them a special flavor, an added spice. After all it is a very recent historical phenomenon for any white girl to be able to get some mileage out of flaunting her fascination and envy of blackness. The thing about envy is that it is always ready to destroy, erase, take over, and consume the desired object. That's exactly what Madonna attempts to do when she appropriates and commodifies aspects of black culture.
When Irene visits Clare at her home, she has the pleasure of meeting her husband John. He calls Clare “nig” and openly discusses his hate for “niggers,” believing he is in room with only white people. Larsen portrays how Irene is negatively affected by the white world through this uncomfortable situation that Clare obliges her to endure. She is forced to deny her true identity in front of John so that she can remain loyal to Clare’s true identity, or risk him finding out that he married a woman of color. "She couldn't betray Clare, couldn't even run the risk of appearing to defend a people that were being maligned for fear that that defense might in some infinitesimal degree lead the way to final discovery of her secret!
There is a common stereotype of when a white woman is dating an affluent black man, she is just there for his money, or she is trying to take all of “the good black men”. This is just a stereotype and may not always be true. Some people actually love each other instead of loving what one person can buy the other. Another example of an interracial dating stereotype would be north American Asian women only wanting to date white men. This is definitely not true because there are many Asian women dating different races of men, but society does not see this.
Some look down because they don’t want to be accused of looking at her. The white men are yelling at them to look at her, or don’t look at her. The boys don’t know how they are expected to behave because they are now supposed to have equal rights and they should be able to look at the woman, but the white men are yelling at them like animals. The white men were in control, they white men found entertainment in this because they believe that blacks are still lower than them. They also believe that women are lower than them because they can subject the blonde woman to be ogled in a room by a bunch of people to watch their reactions and not think twice about it.
As the white woman dances in front of the black boys participating in the battle royal (as a result, participating in their public dehumanization), the narrator has a desire for her; however, at the same time wants “to caress and destroy her” (Ellison 249). The white woman symbolizes a forbidden freedom essentially “stripping” the narrator of his decency and innocence. The tattoo on her body is an ironic gesture inserted by Ellison. Ironically, America is presumed to be the place where all men are created equal”; however, the white woman is placed within an environment that refuses to accept equality. Therefore, as the white men taunt the black boys with the white woman, they in turn taunt them with their freedom.
This relates to my beliefs, how the hijab liberates a women from how she has delivered herself from what other’s expectations are in which the fashion industries take advantage of. The hijab expresses how devout a woman is about her religion. It is also a way for Muslim women to respect and honor her tradition. In the article, “Why I Won’t Veil,” by Nadia O. Gaber, she describes her time in Egypt as horrible because she felt invisible, “Holding oneself to conventions that are impractical (imagine long sleeves or even gloves in the 120-degree Saharan heat) and anachronistic is illogical and unnecessary.”(Nadia Gaber, 2006). In any religion, there will be anachronistic traditions.
She believes that having blue eyes would change the way other people see her, giving her something white America values as beautiful. Even more interestingly, she believes she would see things differently through blue eyes, that they would somehow give her the relatively carefree life of a white, middle-class child. In part because of her low self-esteem as a poor black child, Pecola does not believe in her own beauty or her own free will. She spends her life praying for a miracle because she cannot conceive of being able to change her life on her own. We also like the idea that "blue" can refer to sadness.
The court pleads the man guilty without any proof of rape. Had this been a white man instead the outcomes would have been different. When Tom Robinson was asked why he helped the “Victim” he answered “Looks like she didn't have nobody to help her. I felt sorry for her”(Lee chap 19-20). When Tom said those words the court couldn’t believe what they had heard.
The two know of the forbidden love, yet the two don’t care until things really hit the fan when the young girl then gets pregnant. In this story a white male and an African American girl were to never been seen together. This yes, was considered taboo. Where as today, some may still feel a certain way when other races date not that of their own, but it is still considered acceptable to most. In addition, there was also racial discrimination in “The Welcome Table” written by Walker.