![]() ![]() I want you to believe me when I tell you that race prejudice simply doesn't enter into it. And at the moment the overwhelming majority of our people out there feel that people get along better, take more of a common interest in the life of the community, when they share a common background. But you've got to admit that a man, right or wrong, has the right to want to have the neighborhood he lives in a certain kind of way. Now, I don't say we are perfect and there is a lot wrong in some of the things they want. They're not rich and fancy people just hard-working, honest people who don't really have much but those little homes and a dream of the kind of community they want to raise their children in. ![]() And of course, there is always somebody who is out to take advantage of people who don't always understand.WALTER: What do you mean?LINDNER: Well-you see our community is made up of people who've worked hard as the dickens for years to build up that little community. (BENEATHA frowns slightly, quizzically, her head tilted regarding him.) Today everybody knows what it means to be on the outside of something. ![]() Anybody can see that you are a nice family of folks, hard-working and honest I'm sure. As I say, the whole business is a matter of caring about the other fellow. Friendly like, you know, the way people should talk to each other and see if we couldn't find some way to work this thing out. And that's why I was elected to come here this afternoon and talk to you people. Read the passage from A Raisin in the Sun.LINDNER: Yes-that's the way we feel out in Clybourne Park. ![]()
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