Summary Of We Gon Be Alright

A dilemma such as racism and discrimination has surfaced the United States for many decades. People also speculate that the election of the new president plays a role in racial hierarchy. In the book, “We Gon’ Be Alright” Jeff Chang explains racial conflict in the country. He talks about the African American experiences and their struggles in the United States. He also talks about the difference compares his life as the majority in Hawaii to moving to California for college. He said he was exposed to the true life of a minority and how Asian Americans are truly treated in the United States. Over the years, as African Americans try to come up to have equality, there are always boundaries that stop them. With an organization and a message

There have been many talks about affirmative action and how it relates to the topic of inequality. “For a long time, the debate over an affirmative action was a proxy for discussing race and inequality.’ (Chang, 20) At first, affirmative action wasn’t a term used for equality between different races, but now it sparks up conversation what people need to do to get their rights. Many black families moved to the suburbs for the same reason as other white families, but they didn’t know they weren’t being treated the same way. “Even if Prince George’s County suburbs were high income, they too had been redlined by race.” It was this way all across the country. Neighborhoods where mostly people of color lived were more than twice as likely to have received subprime loans as mostly white neighborhoods.” (Chang, 79) This means that when there was a crash, minorities who lived in these areas were subjected to losing their homes because of

Trump’s campaign consisted mostly on the topic of illegal immigration “He called Mexican immigrants “criminals” and “rapists,” warned that” “Islam hates us,” and accused China of “waging economic war against us.” (Chang, 11) Donald Trump has claimed before that immigrants who come from Mexico aren’t the best and they come to the U.S. to commit crimes. In his presidential reign, he also insisted that there be a travel ban of immigrants coming from Islamic countries. Trump has also attempted to get President Obama to admit that he’s not born in the U.S. “Trump made himself the public face of the bizarre Birther movement, which held that Barack Obama had not been born in the United States. In naming Obama an “illegal alien,” conspiracists could attach fantastical narratives to Obama: Chicago criminal corruption , Muslim takeovers, Mexican drug-dealer invasions.” (Chang, 11) Trump later on reveals how he “accomplished” getting the first Black President to be the first to test his