The Theme of Racial Values and Overcoming Obstacles in Af.Am

Much the same, a lot of people, in the past, were not happy about integration, yet were unaware of the impact of each race to the other. Many white people wanted to have nothing to do with blacks. Surprisingly, the football team on Remember the Titans was exactly like that. The white players refused to play on a team that consisted of blacks along with a black coach and vice versa. “I say boycott T.C. Williams, our boys ain’t playing for no Coach Coon.” But in order to play on the team, they had to settle for that idea anyways. The white and black players broke through the barrier of stereotypes and formed a good team. They needed each other to make a whole and not two ha

In Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog, the importance of family had a totally different aspect. The main two characters, Lincoln and Booth, were brothers and each had their own way of looking at life. Sometimes Booth would be so frank and mean to Lincoln when Lincoln was the main one who had a steady income (much like Piano Lesson’s Doaker) and yet was treated like an underdog. He was very nice and welcoming to his brother Booth, but Booth was always looking for the easy way out of things. Their relationship seemed kind of iffy at first, just because of how Booth would talk to him. Surprisingly at the end you find out just how iffy their relationship was because Booth shoots and kills his brother over the card game. He does later feel remorse for what he did, but you have to think, was it real?

Similarly, in Douglas Ward’s Day of Absence, the whites did not realize how much they depended on the blacks until they were absent in their lives. In a way, that shows how they needed each other. By that, meaning the whites needed the blacks in order to keep their lives organized and crazy-free and the blacks needed the whites to help keep their lives suitable by working. On the other hand, in Ossie Davis’ Purlie Victorious, Charlie wants there to be integration, but is put down for it by his father Ol’ Cap’n. Towards the end of the play, Charlie works alongside Purlie to place the church in Purlie’s name. Charlie even asks Purlie to be a Deacon of the church. “Would you let me be a member of your church?” In contrast, in Leroi Jones’s Dutchman, neither race depended on the other. It ended up as more of a revenge of the races. Clay and Lula began liking each other, but in the end, the relationship evolved to dislike. They disliked each other to the point of abuse on both sides. “Ahh. Shit. But who needs it? I’d rather be a fool. Insane. Safe with my words, and no deaths, and clean, hard thoughts, urging me to new conquests.”

Nevertheless, in Antwone Fisher, Antwone was especially happy when he met his family for the first time. He had never seen them before so the thought of meeting overjoyed him because he then knew that he was a part of a family. He would have a history. Before he met his family, though, the military psychiatrist became a father figure to him... helping him to know right from wrong, dating do’s and don’ts, etc. The military psychiatrist was encouraging yet stern at the same time. It was good for Antwone because he needed a father figure in his life.

The struggle to overcome a troubled past is surreal theme that most people can truly relate to. It is uplifting to see someone with a troubled past end up a better person than before. In Antwone Fisher, Antwone suffered through a lot when he was younger, he was given up as a child, raised by an abusive foster m

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