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Stephanie HurlburtOctober 7, 2014A Raisin in the SunA Story UntoldMy name is Karl Lindner and I represent the Clybourne Park Improvement Committee. Do you have a moment? I would like your opinion on something, a bit of a situation, if you will. How would you feel if I told you that everything you have everworked for, your home and family could potentially be threatened? Not good you say? Perfect. You are exactly the kind of people I need help from. Allow me to explainmy proposition. Now, you, Mr. and Mrs. Jones, are the ideal residents for our fine neighborhood; hardworking, respectable, quiet and clean. How would you feel if I told you a Negro family is planning to move into 406, Jim and Carols old place? I can already tell you how it would end and it’s not good, not good at all. For starters, It may attract more of “their people” around here, the house would probably be un-kept on the outside along with god knows what going on inside. Not only that, but I can surely predict a decrease in the value of not only your home, but the whole neighborhood. Our restaurants, schools, everything we have come to love will soon be changed, along with a whole list of other problems. Why I heard just last week an old Negro woman refused to move to the back of the bus, now the whole towns in a riot. Not to mention the Little Rock school system. This is what happens when their people get out of control, bad, bad things. But what can you do to stop this? Funny you may ask, I have arranged a sure-fire plan to prevent this anomaly from following through. All I need is support from Hurlburt 1generous families such as you. By offering these people more than they paid for the house not to move in. By providing a donation, of even twenty dollars to prevent thistragedy from occurring right in our own backyard you will certainly not regret it. Why, I’m going to speak with the family later today to offer them back not only the three thousand- five hundred down payment as well fifty from the Smith’s, seventy-five from the Carlson’s, and one hundred from my wife and I. The way I see it, the more we offer the better our chances are to keep them away. You’re donating one hundred as well? Wonderful! I can promise this will all be worth it when we can keep our Clybourne Park pure! Thank you again. I will be back later to update you onthe offer. Have a great day!I don’t get it. How could they resist my offer? What is so important about moving into my neighborhood that they feel they have to do it? Well they are only going to regret it. I’ll make sure of that. I still don’t understand why they wouldn’t just take the money and find a home in a community of their own people? I was so nice to them with my generous offer. I can tell my supporters are not going to be happy with these results. They will just not due. Mr. and Mrs. Jones? Hi, Karl Lindner again. Listen I have some devastating news. The family of Negros we spoke about earlier this week? Yeah, they refused the money. I know, hard to believe. You probably saw them visit the house the other day. There has to be something else we can do. When I spoke with them, I included very specific facts. I told them, “I am sure you people must be aware of some of the incidents which have happened in various parts of the city when colored people have moved into certain areas” (162), going on to say, “Not only do we deplore that Hurlburt 2kind of thing [behavior], but we are trying to do something about it” (163). By this, I simply meant how we’ve all seen it in the news. A black family moves into a white neighborhood and bad things start happening. Whether it’s a drive-by shooting or a KKK cross- burning incident that is the behavior their people attract. And how Cybourne Park does not tolerate such behavior. I explained to them, “A man, right or wrong, has the right to want to have a neighborhood he lives in a certain kind of way”(164). Continuing with, “The overwhelming majority of our people out there feel that people get along better, takemore of a common interest in the life of a community, when they share a common background” (164). Good right? I even told them, “For the happiness of all concernedthat our Negro families are happier when they live in their own communities”(164). After all that, they still refused my offer. I just don’t understand. What will it take for them to stay out? What do these people want? I offered them kindness and money. I can’t imagine them wanting more than that. Society is changing and I’m worried. It starts with small things like a black family moving into our neighborhood, restaurant sit-ins and bus boycotts. But wheredoes it end? This country will turn into chaos if we continue down this riotous path. Pretty soon we will have to share schools, churches and even bathrooms with these people. At this rate who even knows. They’ll attempt to dissipate our society and take over. What next, a black president? I just cannot stand the idea of all of this change. It’s not good. Not for me, not for Clybourne Park and not for America. Hurlburt


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