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Achieving The American Dream Essay

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The American dream is the ideal that everyone in the US should have equal opportunities to achieve success and prosperities through hard work, initiative and determination. This is an ideal, a desire that's unlikely to actually happen which is unfortunately true for multiple American citizens. The American dream is only achievable if given the right opportunities. If you're not given the right opportunities in your life, you are unable to achieve an ideal that is slowly dying. Due to the unfairness of society African Americans cannot achieve the same American Dream as the white counterpart. Unless you are given the right tools in life you will be unsuccessful in achieving the American Dream. The American had been explained as “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” by James Truslow Adam. Achieving this dream requires having certain tools such as economic freedom, and property rights. The ‘American Dream’ is an ideal with it being an ideal it gives off the impression that it's played out and unnecessarily. Unless you believe in this ideal that you need to have economic freedom and the right of …show more content…

Black people won't be able to achieve the American dream. From a study in 2016 it shows a gap between African Americans and their white counterparts, With White people net worth being on average $171,000 which is 10 times as much as African Americans. African Americans, having been trying to build wealth for generations, have been stopped by many trails. The wealth gap plus the trials and tribulations of the Black Community just shows the racial injustice and the unequal opportunities that they (the African Americans) faced compared to their other counterparts. Black people aren't given the same opportunities as everyone else leaving them with little to no chances of achieving the American

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