A Lesson About A Lesson Before Dying

This past Friday I went to go see A Lesson Before Dying at Circuit Playhouse. I went into the theatre completely blind about what I was about to see. Based on the title I thought maybe it would be about an elderly man who is about to die who goes on a few adventures before he is kicks the bucket. Unfortunately I was completely wrong. The play was about an African American man sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. I truly could not stand being in the theatre. The acting and story on the whole were powerful and amazing but I just could not stand the truth that existed within the play. I am so sick and tired of listening to, hearing about, and experiencing issues of race. I just cannot take it anymore. We are all G-d's children and it makes me sick to my stomach that racial situations like this existed in our past and even more despicably still exist today. If there was no real life truth to that play than Ithink I would have been quite moved by it but unfortunately our society to a large extent is still living in that play and it is something that must be overcome. It makes me physically ill to think of all of the incredibly wonderful things that African Americans have done for our culture and to see them being violated in such a crude regard. I seriously wanted to get up and walk out somewhere in the middle of the second act. Why do we have to live in a world like this? Why can't people just look past color. Until I came to Memphis 3 years ago I had no idea racism still existed because race is not a big issue up north. I just wish that man lived and the people who put him there would have been put on the chair themselves.