Clay’s Struggle for Discrimination towards his Belief

showing what is inside him, the real him, he wants to knock Lula and her people off to the lowest level, showing he and his people have rights to live equally in peace in one nation of the U. S. Clay also has high hopes that Lula and her people sees what they say about him is a reflection of the White Americans. Yet Clay tries to recover his lost African culture with the growing sense of black power and anger. Being provoked, he challenges Lula expressing his authentic self Diyaiy, 2009: 19. Clay’s murder proves that the righteous does not always triumph, and that reality would simply not allow things to be the way they should. The course of events is doomed, Clay’s murder and the new cycle beginning in the end with Lula and another prey prove it, again with another African American man carrying books. After several racial stereotypings Lula said to Clay, the writer gives the outline of Clay’s struggle. As the writer analyzes this play, Clay struggled for the labelings he experiences, such as Uncle Thomas and belly rub. He criticizes Lula’s propensity to appropriation instead of ridicules Lula for being racist against his people. His struggle to back up of blues music is also evidence that he is already tired of Lula’s mock by singing in blues-y tunes. He includes Bessie Smith as an example to counter white people who love black music. Another struggle Clay fights for is his belief. He knows that being a Christian for him and his people is not easy. There are political issues regarding their beliefs as Christianity is controlled by white people. Clay also has to struggle to keep being sane against the whites. As the writer stated that for Clay, sanity equals murder. He knows exactly that killing does not solve problems between him and Lula. The last evidence of Clay’s struggle is for being himself, as African American man. He tells Lula to let him be whatever he wants to be, yet he does not care about Lula’s statement regarding “fake white man” label she addresses to him.