White privilege is writing an unauthorized sequel to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun focusing on white characters and white viewpoints and receiving universal glowing reviews for your “original” and “daring” take on race relations. White privilege is your play winning the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, while Hansberry’s play was snubbed for both.
THIS HAPPENED??? THIS ACTUALLY FUCKING HAPPENED????
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It gets worse. Here’s what the playwright had to say about why he was inspired to write the play:
In an e-mail interview Mr. Norris said that “A Raisin in the Sun” was one of the first major American plays he had been exposed to as a child. When he saw the film adaptation in the seventh grade, he made the connection, he wrote, “that we, the all-white students of my school, were the offspring of Karl Lindner.”
“That’s a lesson that sticks with you, the lesson that you are, essentially the villain in someone else’s story,” he wrote. “Many years later I thought, what if we turned the story around and told it from the opposite angle, the angle of people like my family, the villains, the ones who wanted to keep them out?”
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Is this play a defense of gentrification?
