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Black Feminists Debate purityStephanie Philipovich & Angela TorchiaPassage 1 "Here is the house. It is green and washcloth. It has a blushing(a) door. It is very pretty. Here is the family. Mother, Father, Dick, and Jane live in the green-and-white house. They are very contented. key 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 father golosh andjane live in the green and white hous theys are very happy see jane she gots a red dress she wants as well play. (Both passages based on the passages found in the opening of The Bluest Eye.)Passage taken from I fuck Why The Caged Bird Sings                                        Maya Angelou"After we left Mr. Willie Williams Do Drop Inn, th e uttermost stop before whitefolksville, we had to cross the pond and adventure the railroad tracks. We were explorers go without weapons into man-eating animals territory. In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didnt really, suddenly know what whites looked like. Other than that they were different, to be dreaded, and in that dread was included the abhorrence of the powerless against the powerful, the poor against the rich, the worker against the worked for the ragged against the well dressed. I telephone never believing that whites were really real Whitefolks couldnt be great deal because their feet were too small, their skin too white and see-throughy, and they didnt walk on the balls of their feet the way people did- they walked on their heels like horses.People were those who lived on my side of town.