I don’t think the U.S is quite a white supremacist country anymore. People are no longer judged by the color of their skin, so white people are no longer thought to be ‘better’ than other people, especially blacks, since they have earned a lot of rights over the years. The country is trying its best to be equivalent with all people and see them for their value as a person and not as that of their race.
However, the U.S. still holds the 'white supremacist' belief in some areas. Take the immigrants, for instance. Many people mistreat them and discriminate them, claiming that their white, American race is far greater than theirs, who have to come to the great, American country to at least dream to be in a better economic position.
In fact, now that the white supremacy belief is supposed to have died down, now that there should be no more discrimination, that black and Indian people have rights like everybody else, immigrants are still being treated like people other than whites were treated in the old pages of American history. Illegal immigrants are people who come to work humbly and simply want to be seen as that, people, like everyone else, just as great as the next person, but they still encounter the barriers of American discrimination. The opportunities for work are still closed for them, because of the American so-called fear of they taking their beloved jobs.
'We have worked too hard to have the country we have now. We're far better than those illegals.' Those are the expressions of people who surround us, people who have no consideration for others that do not belong to the 'white race.'
That are not great, like white people have been for centuries. According to those people, the U.S. is still a country where white supremacy rules, like it always has. And they want it to remain that way for centuries.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
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