Stonewall Amazing

The main topic in “Stonewall Jackson’s House”, by Reynolds is what it means to be politically correct when talking about different races and ethnicities. In the play, the actors perform a play about a young African American girl, LaWanda, who wants to be a slave in the modern world in order to be free of decisions about her life. She states that people in nowadays live in another form of slavery; this is the Government because they play the role of a father that keeps people’s needs fulfill and the central power is their guardian. The new slaves are the people under the nations, where the cotton plantation have changed for a new type of plantation, the economy and corporations which control how people live.

The play demonstrates how hypocrite the people is when referring to the topic of minorities and discrimination, as it shows Oz saying that the play was extremely racist and the only way to make it not racist is if the writer would be African American. When he acknowledge that Tracy have created the play, he still thinks that the idea is crazy and even more racist. In Reynolds’ play he expresses that racisms is still part of our society because people treat different those minorities. As Tracy says, the fact that in college institutions people have to take classes as “Black Studies” or “Women Studies” indicate the notion of a society who have not overcome the differences in race or gender. In this sense, the play shows that in today’s society there is a need of consciousness about how to treat minorities to not offend them or pass them over. Instead of thinking that certain groups of people have been through much discrimination in history, is necessary to think in terms of the present and respect people not for their past but...

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...s nowadays are the people of these governments. They are under the protection of an ultimate entity - the nation’s government.

Finally, the play talks about topics regarding discrimination and the paternalist system that gives shelter to people. In the play the role of the government is criticized because it gives too much protection to the minorities and it does not let people be completely free of their life with such amount of welfare programs. However, the government is the only institution that has the right, given by the people, to protect them from other governments and from themselves. The problems lies in the fact that people abuse the facilities that the nation gives to them, so the minorities felt as new slaves in the sense that they do not want to become independents because the leaders can provide them with every tool needed to have a perfect life.