Concerning Mr. Lindner...was he a bigot?

He may not have been a straight-up bigot, but by trying to encourage the Youngers to move, he was still acting out the wishes of the bigots who did not want them to move into a white neighborhood by proxy. I agree that yes, a lot of white Americans felt that way at the time (hell,some still feel that way today) but there were also some white Americans who were willing to fight the good fight against institutional racism and to deal with the consequences of that decision---check out the PBS documentary THE FREEDOM RIDERS,for example, memoirs of any white anti-racist activists from that era, and read the book FREEDOM'S DAUGHTERS, which is primarily about women civil rights activists and their overlooked contributions to the civil rights movement.

And a lot of black families had to deal with a lot of racist bull**** when moving into an all-white neighborhood at the time, but they did it--not because they wanted just to be around white people or anything, but because they wanted the right to move around and live anywhere they wanted to JUST like their fellow white Americans could do at that time. Hell, there was still major segregation in many parts of the country even at the time A RAISIN IN THE SUN was made, and not just the South.

Another book I'd recommend is ARC OF JUSTICE, which is about a real-life case of what happened to a black family that moved into a neighborhood on Detroit's East Side in the mid 1920's, and the ensuing court case that followed. This case set a landmark precedence for the rights of black people and housing, which went on until the late 1960's and beyond.

The So called bigots knew blacks would destroy neighborhoods and continue to do so....Look at the cities like Camden NJ ,Newark ,Oakland CA ,Detroit Mi Memphis Tenn etc,anywhere their numbers are great the city falls...period,,,they are the black plaque

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