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black Feminists line of reasoning WhitenessStephanie Philipovich & Angela TorchiaPassage 1 "Here is the house. It is immature and white. It has a red door. It is rattling pretty. Here is the family. Mother, Father, Dick, and Jane live in the green-and-white house. They are rattling happy. See Jane. She has a red dress. She wants to play."(Morris, pg. 7)Passage 2here is teh hous it is green and white it has a red door it is very prety hrere is the family mother tiro dick andjane live in the green and white hous theys are very happy see jane she gots a red dress she wants too play. (Both passages found on the passages found in the opening of The Bluest Eye.)Passage taken from I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings                                        Maya Angelou"After we left Mr. Willie Williams Do destroy In n, the last stop before whitefolksville, we had to cross the pond and adventure the rail line tracks. We were explorers walking without weapons into man-eating animals territory. In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didnt really, absolutely know what whites looked like. Other than that they were different, to be dreaded, and in that dread was include the hostility of the powerless against the powerful, the poor against the rich, the worker against the worked for the ragged against the well dressed. I remember never believing that whites were really real Whitefolks couldnt be mountain because their feet were too small, their skin too white and see-throughy, and they didnt walk on the balls of their feet the focusing people did- they walked on their heels like horses.People were those who lived on my side of town.