The Bluest Eye:Reading Toni Morrison Through Sexual Abuse and First Grade

First Grade Teachers Are U Reading This?
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Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty. Here is the family. Mother, Father, Dick, and Jane live in the green and white house................etc............................

Here is the house it is green and white it has a red door it is very pretty here is the family mother father dick and jane live in the green and white house......etc...........

Hereisthehouseitisgreenandwhiteithasareddooritisveryprettyhereisthefamilymotherfatherdickandjandjaneliveinthegreenandwhitehouse..................etc..................................

I once has a patient who told me, "Everyone had me. My brothers, friends, uncles, fathers, everyone from before I can even remember."

I thought this was the biggest secret anyone could ever tell.

But another day she said that she had a secret she had never told anyone. No one. She had a very young son, was a single mother, and determined for him to be educated and off the streets so she had picture books for him, took him places, etc.

Her secret: "I can't read."

My second analyst who was an old woman had recently told me when I wondered about saying something to a patient said to me, "You are a grown woman. You can say whatever you want!"

So what I said to this patient having been a first grade teacher at one time who would not have made this mistake was: 

How could you ever learn to read! Every word in a pre-primer is LOADED! 

dick dog cat look see jump go stop come run away house red ETC.

And when we finished working together I gave her Toni Morrison's book you see above.

Is anyone going to say the current laws on sex offense with minors is going to have 

ANY EFFECT ON THIS KIND OF SEXUAL OFFENSE? 

!GIMME A BREAK!

Every one is in collusion, complicity, even the child who thinks it is a natural thing. It had become institutionalized for her. She is the goldfish in the bowl who can't know water. Then she goes to school which is an anti-environment and discovers 

meaninglessness. 

!AND YES I AM ENRAGED!