To discriminate or not to discriminate The play appropriate by Brenden Jacobs-Jenkins tells a story about a Caucasian family that has a lot of issues in their past before the beginning of the play. When cleaning out their father 's house they find out about their father 's secret life as a Ku Klux Klan member. Of course it wasn 't presented like that at first, but the elephant in the room was about the signs that point to their father being a racist, and the siblings trying to make excuses and deny that fact even when the evidence was staring at them in the face. In a similar sense, Langston Hughes’s "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain", is an essay about the attempt of African Americans to separate themselves from their heritage and
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For African Americans this notion of white is right, makes them want to cast away from their racial title so they don 't feel as inferior. Instead of African American they want to be considered American and equal, even though in the back of their mind they will always feel inferior the Caucasians as it is a fact that they grew up with. Hughes berates this idea by saying, “So I am ashamed for the black poet who says, "I want to be a poet, not a Negro poet," as though his own racial world were not as interesting as any other world.” The "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" essay gives examples of how blacks get the idea in there head that their own culture is not good enough for them and they must act like the whites. In turn, this causes the “Negro middle class” to discriminate against their own people because they aren’t white-like …show more content…
Bevin O 'Gara stated, "The whole play is about dismissal". (O’Gara) That statement is true, as all of the main characters dismiss some aspect of who they are, so they feel better. Toni dismisses fact that her father was a racist. Even when being told about his racist tendencies, she made excuses for it. “Yes, he was a little aloof - kept to himself - but that was just his personality. And maybe he used the wrong word for somebody from time to time but that’s just his generation - and it was never in a derogatory way!” exclaims Toni. (Jacobs-Jenkins 37) Bo goes on a rampage say the he didn 't lynch and enslave anyone, in order to dismiss that part of history and his heritage. “I didn’t enslave anybody! I didn’t lynch anybody!” he shouts. (Jacobs-Jenkins 84) However, he displays some disturbing tendencies by causally thinking about the money that the photos are worth, and in the end going into denial about his father being racist after seeing the KKK hood. Frank tries to dismiss his past by changing his name to Franz and trying to stop people from being his past up. This relates to Langston Hughes 's "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain", as Hughes talks about the Philadelphia clubwoman. "A prominent Negro clubwoman in Philadelphia paid eleven dollars to hear Raquel Meller sing Andalusian popular songs. But she told me a few weeks before she would not think of going to hear "that woman," Clara Smith, a great
For African Americans this notion of white is right, makes them want to cast away from their racial title so they don 't feel as inferior. Instead of African American they want to be considered American and equal, even though in the back of their mind they will always feel inferior the Caucasians as it is a fact that they grew up with. Hughes berates this idea by saying, “So I am ashamed for the black poet who says, "I want to be a poet, not a Negro poet," as though his own racial world were not as interesting as any other world.” The "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" essay gives examples of how blacks get the idea in there head that their own culture is not good enough for them and they must act like the whites. In turn, this causes the “Negro middle class” to discriminate against their own people because they aren’t white-like …show more content…
Bevin O 'Gara stated, "The whole play is about dismissal". (O’Gara) That statement is true, as all of the main characters dismiss some aspect of who they are, so they feel better. Toni dismisses fact that her father was a racist. Even when being told about his racist tendencies, she made excuses for it. “Yes, he was a little aloof - kept to himself - but that was just his personality. And maybe he used the wrong word for somebody from time to time but that’s just his generation - and it was never in a derogatory way!” exclaims Toni. (Jacobs-Jenkins 37) Bo goes on a rampage say the he didn 't lynch and enslave anyone, in order to dismiss that part of history and his heritage. “I didn’t enslave anybody! I didn’t lynch anybody!” he shouts. (Jacobs-Jenkins 84) However, he displays some disturbing tendencies by causally thinking about the money that the photos are worth, and in the end going into denial about his father being racist after seeing the KKK hood. Frank tries to dismiss his past by changing his name to Franz and trying to stop people from being his past up. This relates to Langston Hughes 's "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain", as Hughes talks about the Philadelphia clubwoman. "A prominent Negro clubwoman in Philadelphia paid eleven dollars to hear Raquel Meller sing Andalusian popular songs. But she told me a few weeks before she would not think of going to hear "that woman," Clara Smith, a great