Why Hasn’t this Changed Yet?

 After reading and analyzing a brand new perspective on race this week, I’ve realized that racial injustice is still exactly as present today as it was after the civil war, and unfortunately it was so anticipated, that the playwright confidently stated that this could take place anytime between the end of the civil war and the present (whenever that is). Not only does this get validated by the racial injustice we still have on 2021, but it also touches on that the civil war left behind a legacy, but still didn’t resolve any racism that is/was already present in the United States. This ties into ideas of racism being passed down from generation to generation, and that the people who were still racist after the civil war, passed those same ideas onto their children to be passed down onto their children, and so on. With this mindset, no civil war, new laws, rights, liberties, etc. given to people of color (specifically black people) will change the mindset of those individuals. Unfortunately, it has been a known fact for a while that it is impossible to get rid of racism as long as there are still some people passing on racist ideas and tendencies, as racism is not a law or policy, but rather an individual respective that greatly impacts a community as a whole. Bringing this back to “A Raisin in the Sun”, the characters are very affected by both racism received from society and internalized racism that has been implemented into their lives. The destruction caused by this is devastatingly avoidable in the play, as it is in the lives of black people in 2021.