Essay On Resilience In America
The United States has shown a long history resilience, in certain aspects that is. Being able to recover after some wars and even the Great Depression. But that hasn’t always been the case when it comes to racism. Even today the American society still struggles with racism. It’s caused and shown many people the inflexibility in resilience. I believe that it is up to us to change this, to be able to stop the racism and maybe then the American society will succeed rather than fail. Racism has been a problem since the early 17th century. People who are not really educated about the subject enough would say it all started with African Americans, but that is not the case. Native Americans were invaded by Europeans. The Europeans believe that they
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We, as a society, have shown resilience in the past years when it comes to racism. And although we can’t deny that there is not racism in America, it seemed to be under control. Recently with Mr. Donald Trump it seems to have gotten worse. Not only does he speak negative about Mexicans, African Americans, and Islamic people. But the people who seem to be uneducated support him and its only leading to violence against one another. Former presidents have tried to join us as one. To bring peace. If Americans don’t educate themselves on who may be a candidate as a president it’s only going to get worse. He condones violence and racism, and that is never the answer. Mr. Trump not only condones violence but he encourages it, stating he would pay legal fees for any of his supporters if they were to attack and abuse a protestor. Now is that really the type of man you want running the nation? A man that would lead us to war if that meant “solving” a small problem? Because I personally believe that would only lead us to bigger problems. And it would all be because we aren’t being responsible citizens and voting for a better
We, as a society, have shown resilience in the past years when it comes to racism. And although we can’t deny that there is not racism in America, it seemed to be under control. Recently with Mr. Donald Trump it seems to have gotten worse. Not only does he speak negative about Mexicans, African Americans, and Islamic people. But the people who seem to be uneducated support him and its only leading to violence against one another. Former presidents have tried to join us as one. To bring peace. If Americans don’t educate themselves on who may be a candidate as a president it’s only going to get worse. He condones violence and racism, and that is never the answer. Mr. Trump not only condones violence but he encourages it, stating he would pay legal fees for any of his supporters if they were to attack and abuse a protestor. Now is that really the type of man you want running the nation? A man that would lead us to war if that meant “solving” a small problem? Because I personally believe that would only lead us to bigger problems. And it would all be because we aren’t being responsible citizens and voting for a better