African American Informative Speech

America is most known to be the “nation of immigrant.” The nation that accepts foreigners and helps them pursue an American Dream. It helps you all together make someone out of yourself by providing opportunities to make that dream a reality. Although this may be true, the nation that gives you a label a label that makes you feel completely uncomfortable. Imagine you being called “illegal” out loud, and people just stare at you, how uncomfortable you would feel; every time you here the word illegal. Today, I will be talking about how The Library of Congress will no longer use the term “illegal” or “alien” to describe an undocumented immigrant. To begin with, a petition was done in order to change the subheading of “illegal alien” to “non-citizen” …show more content…
But to those who are receiving the name as “illegal” or “alien” can be a quite hurtful and unsatisfactory. In a way it’s like going back to slavery when African Americana were called “Nigger” it was an offensive term to describe a group of people. We would all agree today that calling an African American a “Negro or Nigger” is being racist but little do we know; we are still doing it today but with different groups. It's the same exact thing when describing someone who left their country to restart their life in another country as an “illegal alien.” I know it may be an unpleasant comparison to use, but it's the awful truth. It's were this country (America) of all opportunities stands at the moment. It is very unsatisfactory being labeled as an “ illegal Alien,” In a way they are looking down at the individual who is referred to as an “illegal Alien.” They are basically telling you in written paper that you don't belong in this country. Which is very unconformable to many individual. I personally agree with the author’s argument not only because the author mentions that it's “racist” but also because I myself have experienced this typed of offence. I am a DREAMer; I was brought to this country when I was about two years old. I didn't know what my parents were doing; I was unaware of the consequence I was going to face. I didn't have a choice is what I am saying; it was not my decision to be in this …show more content…
But now it has successfully passed, and the usage of the term will be changed. It was not only a victory to Cofired but to all the undocumented students, who are offended by the term “illegal