Standing Up to Racial Discrimination

The Younger’s family perseveres through all the discrimination that they are faced with and that has evidently been a theme towards the end of the story. Mr. Lindner tries to talk the Younger’s family out of occupying the house because the “majority of our people out there” (the people of Clybourne Park) do not want Negroes living in their neighborhood. “Our association is prepared… to buy the house from you at a financial gain to your family.” (118). Lindner tries to bribe the Younger’s family to not move in their house by offering more than what they had paid for the house in the first place. Although this would be beneficial financially to the Younger’s family, they shut it down and they don’t even consider the offer; hence Walter firmly stating, “Get out of my house, man.” (119), shortly after Lindner had proposed the deal.

            The Younger’s displayed their strength to fend off discrimination and take deep pride into their race. “I come from five generations of people who was slaves and sharecroppers… ain’t nobody in my family never let nobody pay ‘em no money that was a way of telling us we wasn’t fit to walk the earth.” (143). The Younger’s defiance to stand up against the racial discrimination resembles Martin Luther King Junior’s  idea of Civil disobedience to stop racism. They do not give in and show weakness to the “crackers” because that will only prolong the means of discrimination.

http://theindependent.ca/2014/01/20/dr-martin-luther-king-strategies-and-tactics-of-civil-disobedience/