Letter to Walter
In my last unit of my sophomore year, we learned about racism and segregation. During this pandemic, we have dealt with racism by police brutality and violence from the authority who abuse their power. we also had a lawyer or attorney who experienced racism in the real estate business and had to work with others who suffer from racism. The story we were assigned to create a perspective letter is the famous play, Rasin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. This play, set in the south side of Chicago, is about a 5-person, black, family suffering from a 2 bedroom apartment until they receive a $10,000 check from the mother's late husband's life insurance. Throughout the play, the family goes through many obstacles before the mother spends her money on a new house but it is in a place where it is majority white and it’s his choice if he moves into the house and lives in a nice-sized house or sells the house to a white man who says the community around their house is “uncomfortable” for