The end of days

So here we are. Armageddon approaches. And as we stare down the impending doom we realize...it's just ELA ending for the year. I enjoyed the class a lot, but I know that I enjoyed some parts more than others. I feel like we should have had seminars a lot more often. I also think we should've introduced some sort of basic structure to the seminars. I have no idea what kind of structure that would be, but anything works as long as it gets people talking. I also would really enjoy it if we could read another play. I thought that was a hell of a lot of fun. Just one more thing (this is for CW Club). If we could set up an active system on Google Docs to comment on each other's work on days that don't start with an F.

Racist Coins?

I enjoyed how Hansberry portrayed the two racist characters in the book, Lindner and (ironically) Murchison. Lindner was very soft-spoken, polite, nervous man, an opposite to a stereotypical racist in every way. It may seem counterintuitive to reference a stereotype in a post of this nature, but bear with me. The way Lindner worded his speeches to the Youngers sort of made me feel like he was only conveying the wishes and opinions of the people of Clybourne Park when that wasn't the case at all. The other racist character, George Murchison, seemed like a paradox. He was African-American, and yet he held himself above other African-Americans on the level of white people. He attempted to give himself the qualities of a stereotypical white person in that time: college boy, nice clothes, "gay" shoes (as observed by Walter Lee). But, to the Younger family, he only displayed a demeanor of trying too hard to be cool. These two men seemed like two vastly different sides of a same coin.