Sweetness By tony Morrison "My mother was a housekeeper for a rich white couple. They
ate every meal she cooked and insisted she scrub their backs
while they sat in the tub, and God knows what other intimate
things they made her do, but no touching of the same bible!"
The irony of these sentences calls attention to- *
All the injustices African Americans faced in America
The narrator's mother's occupation
The difficult life the narrator's mother lived
The complexities of race and discrimination in society