LET MY PEOPLE GO

Today we are going to discuss the big O. That's right...... oppression. Celebrated playwright Lorraine Hansberry dives headfirst into this issue with her play A Raisin in the Sun. Are people today free from the chaffing shackles of slavery, or are we as bound to another human as African Americans were during the 1800s? The slavery of today is an invisible slavey, born in the corrupt minds and cold hearts of our ancestors and bred into us; an almost instinctive trait to dislike or fear that which does not resemble us. For some people, nurture conquers nature and they can look at people for who they really are. For others, their eyes go only skin deep. People are denied opportunities for "other reasons," a politically correct term used to "Keep America White." I do not know the solution to this problem; this problem that began with our great great great great grandparents and possibly even before them. However, there is a light at the end of this tunnel; and that light is in fact multi-colored. As generations pass, people are becoming more accepting towards minorities. One day, the majority of society will be able to truly become America- The Melting Pot. This day is not in the near future. But it is in the future.