Social Status And Race: The Destruction Of The American Dream

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America has been around for 238 years, providing opportunity for anyone who is willing to grab it. Has America really provided a dream or is it all a false image created by the government to lure immigrants so we can mock them? Our history shows that we haven’t provided an American dream, we provided an American nightmare. It’s all about building a future, but how are you supposed to build a future if you’re social status and race fail you? It’s no exaggeration to say through history we’ve treated people of any type of racial status, other than European, as uneducated, worthless, property, and so much more. Martin Luther King Jr was an activist, he was fighting for a right. And not a right for him a right for everyone, I understand Jim Crow