Emendata

Racism in the USA, part 2

• Even if we only watched a small extract of Mississippi Burning, we could easily understand what was the movie about: We can see a car drove by two white people, and with a black man in the back seat.

• Even if the sheriff is from the beginning of the arrest quite antipathetic, he become really aggressive once he have seen the black man in the backseat.

• He ends up shouting the driver, just because he was driving a black man.

• What is really worrying about this movie is to see that even law enforcement were breaking rules and were certainly even part of the Ku Klux Klan.

• The Ku Klux Klan is a hate group who is against Blacks, Jews, Communists and the Immigrants.

• Even if the KKK is not as potent as it used to be, a few people die each year because of it.

• I really think that leaving so much power to people like him is very dangerous, because after all, he is as bad as the criminals he sent to prison.

• This work is different from the previous ones studied by its kind: A Raisin in the Sun isn’t a movie but a play, written by Lorraine Hansberry.

• The title is a first indication to what the movie will be about: A raisin in the sun is a reference to Langston Hughes’ poem: “What happens to a dream deferred?/Does it dry up/like a raisin in the sun?”.

• Indeed, A Raisin in the Sun is all about dream: the main character, Walter Younger, wants money to allow his family a brighter life, his sister, Bethana, wants to be a doctor, his wife, Ruth, and his mother, Mama, wants to own a house,..

• One of the most important things that is taught in this play is that dreaming is way more important than owning a lot of things.

• The character of Mr. Lindler shows perfectly the importance of fighting racial discrimination: he is a white man; send to the Youngers’ by a neighbourhood association to offer them a large amount of money to keep them from moving in their all-white neighbourhood.

• By refusing, the Younger showed pride and dignity, and that’s exactly how people should deal with discrimination.