Look in a mirror and whatever one sees is beautiful; race and color does not matter, because everyone is supposed to be equal. The section titled, Aaron M. Bernstein: Mirrors and Distortions is about how the images portrayed on mirrors can change based on the person looking into them. She talks about simple of instrument mirrors are, but how the idea of distortion has been in literature for ages. She goes on to give the example about when young women look into a mirror and see only a witch. This leads into the discussion about stars, how they are different, and how to see them you need a telescope. Bernstein states, “If you wanna look up in the heavens and see the stars as well as you can without distortion. If you’re counting stars, for example, and two look like one, you’ve blown it” (Fires in the Mirror, 15). Whites look at look African Americans and see them as less than equal. The whites’ images of African Americans was distorted. This may have been because of the color of their skin, or because African Americans started off as slaves, so they were seen as less than since day one. Whatever the reason, in the whites’ eyes African Americans were less
Look in a mirror and whatever one sees is beautiful; race and color does not matter, because everyone is supposed to be equal. The section titled, Aaron M. Bernstein: Mirrors and Distortions is about how the images portrayed on mirrors can change based on the person looking into them. She talks about simple of instrument mirrors are, but how the idea of distortion has been in literature for ages. She goes on to give the example about when young women look into a mirror and see only a witch. This leads into the discussion about stars, how they are different, and how to see them you need a telescope. Bernstein states, “If you wanna look up in the heavens and see the stars as well as you can without distortion. If you’re counting stars, for example, and two look like one, you’ve blown it” (Fires in the Mirror, 15). Whites look at look African Americans and see them as less than equal. The whites’ images of African Americans was distorted. This may have been because of the color of their skin, or because African Americans started off as slaves, so they were seen as less than since day one. Whatever the reason, in the whites’ eyes African Americans were less