A Grape Waiting to be Starved to Death

          A Raisin in The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, in my opinion, uses dreams to translate the issues of blacks and apply them to all people in order to give the universal understanding that black people are people too. Whether this is believed nowadays is a highly controversial topic considering the current riots in Baltimore and prior ones in Ferguson. Racism within the States is a notoriously consistent mainstream occurrence, especially in conversations. Between the discussions of conflict between black and white people and the accusatory statements being shot into the web like toddlers with AK-47s, I wonder if discussing racism actually makes it worse because it is injected into the conscious mind by making people choose a side. By choosing to support black people or white people, the division between black and white people not only continues to divide further but also the one between black and white people that others perceive. The result is that people see black people and white people as enemies, and if people see that in their external environment, then it will start to affect their own thoughts. And so, ironically, we are making people more racially prejudice by addressing the issue of racism in the United States.

          One might object here that discussing racism would help cure it by bringing awareness to it, but all that can be done to help racism on a controllable scale on the national level has been. With the Reconstruction Amendments, black people were given the same legal rights as white men, and with the eradication of the grandfather clauses, the same general ease in which to use them. Legally, black people are equal to white people. When elections ran after the reconstruction amendments, it is not the law that tried to stop black people from voting. It was hate groups like the KKK that would stand in front of the booths and attack any black person who came near. Racism exists solely within people's minds and these racist thoughts turn into racist actions. There is nothing the government can do that it has not done so we can talk about it, but it won't change anything that can be changed as a whole because the only way of doing this, legally, has been done. The inequality within our minds can't be changed by the government any more than it has so by causing riots to get government and civilian attention, people are making racism worse and the government still cannot fix it because it exists on an individual level that is mainly subconscious. On a civilian level, discussing it only brings more attention to the divide and because the media is only portraying the positive things the rioters do and the negative ones the police does, for the most part, the divide appears to be worse than it is. If people believe it is worse than it is, then they will act like it is in this condition, thus causing it to become worse than it is. Sometimes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. This seems to be one particularly sad case of it.