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The Racial Divide

feel as a race war. What that even though in many of African Americans but

little opportunities there respects the country is for all human beings no
have been so few African somewhat more attuned to matter their color, race, or
Americans are able to racial equality like deseg- religion.

move from urban areas regating public schools, P
to middle class suburbia. this country still has an Sadly, though much of O

What this translates is the awful lot more to do to what Dr. King started has L
fact that our political sys- achieve racial equality, withered and died on the I
tem is largely composed equal opportunities, equal vine of so many lost op- C

of white political power. treatment for all African portunities that have been E
A power base that has no Americans and for every a result of government

realization of what they other ethnic group across policies. Government poli- B
have done and continue to the country. cies that have only created R
do with the legislation that the largest income dispar- U

has been passed over 40 We must go back to 1957 ity gap in the history of T
years. when in Little Rock this nation. When we look A

Arkansas and in Mont- at wage disparity it clearly L
When we look back to the gomery Alabama latter confirms the harsh reality I
early 1960’s the United exemplifies the fact that facing not only African T

States was at the pinnacle through acts by nine Afri- Americans but he majority Y
of economic growth but, can American high school of the whole population

lying underneath this fa- students and Rosa Parks in the entire country. In
çade of economic prosper- sparked a national aware- 2010, the average white
ity racial tensions were ness of racial inequality household had almost 40

already bringing a national and the lack of support for times as much total wealth
awareness that there re- equal rights and treatment as the average African-

ally was racial inequality for all African Americans. American household, and
still running rampant in What followed was a na- more than 70 times as
the laws and segregation tional movement lead by much wealth as the aver-

policies that have ex- Reverend Martin Luther age Latino household.
isted for over one hundred King to rid this nation of

years. Racial inequality the injustices and abomi- Since 2010 the figures
has been and is continu- nable treatment of African have only gotten worse for
ing to disrupt the moral Americans. Not only was African Americans and the

conscious of the United Dr. King brining atten- rest of the population.
States. The hard reality is tion on the mistreatment The facts today indicate

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