Community Stories : An Account of Experience with Discrimination

Sojourner's idea of "the old slave-holding spirit", of whites still believing that blacks are inferior, even after slavery has been abolished, compares to the idea that one community and environment shapes one persons beliefs as you grow accustomed to it. So even though slavery had been abolished the White Americans still though they were superior and deny the African Americans their right they had of being free. The person she encountered was an example of her slave holding theory, which makes me believe that "when one lives in such of an environment where everyone believes in one exact idea, that one person will eventually and is most likely to connect that one idea  for the rest of their life". A
A primary source is able to give an account in the eyes of an actual person who witnessed the event and moment while a reporter is more of a sum it all up person basing their story or report on numerous accounts primary or secondary sources. Just as the reporter can only see it from the outside of a community report, but a primary source is able to give it in the exact eyes that he saw the event happen.



Community Stories : To Be Young Black and Gifted

Hansberry felt sad or dull to me in her account about growing up in the South Side of Chicago  I feel she understand with some disappointment what must be done in the neighborhood, knowing her place in a poor community. Hansberry saw the community still managed to strive due to the fact that it was a community that looked after each other. Although she described that there was no direct love shown between their family. Lorraine describes her father a a proud a strong black man for she say he lays on his back like father must and she said he "carried his head in  such a way... there was nothing he was afraid of". The sort of self taught virtues Lorraine learned form her parents made her strong  and proud of who she is, "young black and gifted". As the youngest on her family she felt she was always a nuisance  and her sibling didn't enjoy her company so she learned to play alone, like most children there do. The views of Hansberry are in a way dead because she ends it with the Langston Hughes poem about a dream deferred or a dead dream. Describing what happens after it dies  and how he doesn't know what to do just like the people of the South Chicago.