A Raisin In The Sun: Prejudice And Racism
Intro:
Racism has definitely changed it’s course in the 2000s. Now, it has shifted from more hate towards black people to more hate towards muslims . Yes, in the recent 7 years there were many black and white issues that led people to believe that all of it was a racist act. For example, the death of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, black men getting shot down by white cops and people did believe it was because of the color of their skin, and the black lives matter movement. For those who don’t know what the black lives matter movement is, it’s a campaign that is against unnecessary violence towards black people. This organization was created because a 17 year old boy named Trayvon Martin was murdered by George Zimmerman. Many people that are African-American had believed at the time it was in fact because he was black.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry ( 1930s ) :
In the book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry the African-Americans were treated terribly in the community. For example, the Berry’s were burned because they were black and Mr.Berry was spotted flirting with a white women, which in this time was not okay. Blacks had to stay with blacks, and whites had to stay with whites. Blacks and whites did not have the same laws at this time …show more content…
If anything there weren’t that many racial events, but the one that was in there was very extreme. For example, when Mama decided to spend her husband’s insurance money on a new house. This new house that she had found interest in just so happened to be in an all white neighborhood. Carl Linder, a representative came in from this neighborhood, and spoke about his and the communities thoughts on a black family moving into an all white community. He tried to talk them out of the house that they were interested in just for the state of how others felt. The community did definitely not like the idea of a black family being in their
Racism has definitely changed it’s course in the 2000s. Now, it has shifted from more hate towards black people to more hate towards muslims . Yes, in the recent 7 years there were many black and white issues that led people to believe that all of it was a racist act. For example, the death of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, black men getting shot down by white cops and people did believe it was because of the color of their skin, and the black lives matter movement. For those who don’t know what the black lives matter movement is, it’s a campaign that is against unnecessary violence towards black people. This organization was created because a 17 year old boy named Trayvon Martin was murdered by George Zimmerman. Many people that are African-American had believed at the time it was in fact because he was black.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry ( 1930s ) :
In the book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry the African-Americans were treated terribly in the community. For example, the Berry’s were burned because they were black and Mr.Berry was spotted flirting with a white women, which in this time was not okay. Blacks had to stay with blacks, and whites had to stay with whites. Blacks and whites did not have the same laws at this time …show more content…
If anything there weren’t that many racial events, but the one that was in there was very extreme. For example, when Mama decided to spend her husband’s insurance money on a new house. This new house that she had found interest in just so happened to be in an all white neighborhood. Carl Linder, a representative came in from this neighborhood, and spoke about his and the communities thoughts on a black family moving into an all white community. He tried to talk them out of the house that they were interested in just for the state of how others felt. The community did definitely not like the idea of a black family being in their