Comparing A Raisin In The Sun And I Have A Dream

I believe the film “A Raisin in the Sun” and Martin Luther King Jr “I Have a Dream” speech have a lot in common when dealing with the idea of Racism. In the “A Raisin in the Sun” the neighborhood the family is trying to move in has a problem with a black family moving into their all white neighborhood. In the “I Have a Dream” speech King’s main idea is equal treatment no matter the color of the person’s skin. Even though the film and the speech were two years apart from each other they both show that racism is a problem in our commutes that needs to be solved. In “A Raisin in the Sun” the family has a conflict with the other families living on the street of the house they just put a down payment on. A represented of the neighborhood comes to try to buy them out of the house using the money the other families on the street put together in order to not have an African American family on the street. The family finds it appalling that because of the color of their skin people would not want them living in that part of town. The mother of the family believes that they are a hard working American family and deserve a house of their dreams. The family comes to the conclusion that even though the representative is offering them more money than they paid for the house they cannot take it because it is a disgraces to their black hard working …show more content…
He is feed up with the way people looked at the colored people and for the way they are treated differently only for the color of their skin. King says “This note was a promise that all men--yes, black men as well as white men--would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. He is conveying the idea that the things promised to Americans are the same to each person no matter the color of their skin. Martin Luther King just wants to be judged by his work not by the color of his