From the audience division, to the content of the play, and the post-play discussion, I found it intriguing how much surrounding race relations and family politics has changed, but has also remained the same. In the play, there was so much tension around their interracial relationship, but mainly because the Black man was doing everything in his power to please his white wife. As the play went on we were able to see that his wife would do everything in her power to sabotage her husband’s potential career as an attorney. I found this to be interesting because in modern day terms, outside of dating, Blacks still work hard to prove that in spite of tensions, they can still accomplish what they put their mind to do. At the same time, this can come at the cost of their well-being and stability. Thinking about being a Black women, I find that even when I’m working hard and trying not to fit stereotypes of Blacks in America, I can still feel that there are forces/individuals , who do not believe that I should succeed, and will do anything in their power to prevent that prosperity. All in all, this play helped me to further question how race relations affect my personal decisions and aspirations, and ways that I can consciously work to ameliorate those challenges.
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Race is a deep and complicated issue. I find that observing other people’s reaction to race ( as in the play) can help me understand how uncomfortable people feel about race.