The idea of racism is a weird thing. Its an idea of hatred, of showing that because someone is a different color, they are somehow superior or inferior. Since the 1600s when African Americans came to America they are have been treated differently, and up until the 1900s, they were still treated as inferior. Now it is 2016, and segregation is illegal, slavery is illegal, and black people share all the rights of a white person. But just because it is illegal to enslave another human does not mean that some people wish it wasn’t. In the play A Raisin in the Sun a family of black people experience hard times because of their skin color, not that they were forced to do work, but that because of their skin color they were given less and treated differently.
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Some of the most fatal riots were in Detroit, Los Angeles, Newark, and Washington, measured by deaths of officers, and citizens (NBER, 2016). In Montgomery, Alabama the bus drivers had the job of creating segregation on busses, although they did not have the right to remove anyone from their seat, no matter their skin color. In 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. This stimulated the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This boycott began when E. D. Nixon heard of Parks arrest, and he began posting signs instigating a shunning of Montgomery busses. African Americans were asked to stay off of busses the day of Parks trial, December 5, 1955. While Parks was charged with violating a city ordinance, the boycott was extremely successful (Rosa Parks Biography, n/a). These boycotts and riots showed that while white people were not changing their mind about segregation, African Americans were changing their mind about accepting it. In the play A Raisin In The Sun, which was written in 1959, racism is very much still obvious. In a part of the movie Walter Younger is working as a chauffeur for a rich white man. While his car is parked right in front of another black man’s car, a police officer gives the black man’s car a ticket, while the white man’s car does not get a ticket, obviously because he is white. This shows unmissable favoritism for the white man, even though it was without a doubt
Some of the most fatal riots were in Detroit, Los Angeles, Newark, and Washington, measured by deaths of officers, and citizens (NBER, 2016). In Montgomery, Alabama the bus drivers had the job of creating segregation on busses, although they did not have the right to remove anyone from their seat, no matter their skin color. In 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. This stimulated the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This boycott began when E. D. Nixon heard of Parks arrest, and he began posting signs instigating a shunning of Montgomery busses. African Americans were asked to stay off of busses the day of Parks trial, December 5, 1955. While Parks was charged with violating a city ordinance, the boycott was extremely successful (Rosa Parks Biography, n/a). These boycotts and riots showed that while white people were not changing their mind about segregation, African Americans were changing their mind about accepting it. In the play A Raisin In The Sun, which was written in 1959, racism is very much still obvious. In a part of the movie Walter Younger is working as a chauffeur for a rich white man. While his car is parked right in front of another black man’s car, a police officer gives the black man’s car a ticket, while the white man’s car does not get a ticket, obviously because he is white. This shows unmissable favoritism for the white man, even though it was without a doubt