[Jacqueline-C21029]

African Americans do have a lot to be angry about. There ancestors were kidnapped from their homes, taken to a forgeign land, and sold into slavery. Several hundred years later slavery was outlawed and the slaves were freed, but it was another 100 years or so until African Americans were treated equally under the law. In many places, blacks are still discriminated against by our legal system. For instance, a black man is more likely to be sentenced to the death penalty than a white man when convicted fo the same crime. Jim Crow laws and terrorist groups like the Klan kept African Americans from from being truely free. They did not have any of the opportunities availible to them that whites did. This is not ancient history. Much of the discrimination, segrigation and terrorization is in living memory. Things are not as bad as they used to be, but as a country we have not achieved total equality yet. Its hard to not be bitter and resentful when your people have been persecuted and discriminated against for centuries in a country whose mottos are ‘All men are created equal’ and ‘Life, liberty and the persute of happiness’ and ‘Freedom and justice for all’. Now, I don’t think that this entitles African Americans to blame others for any problems they may have. Blaming others does nothing for the quality of your life. Individual people need to make their opportunites where they can, get an education, set goals and go after them. So what if someone doesn’t want you to achieve your goals, do it anyway. And I don’t think that most African Americans want more than everyone else, I think they want a level playing field so that they have the same opportunities as everyone else. We always have to keep the history of our country in mind because everything that has happened – good or bad – has brought us to where we are now.

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Name : Jacqueline-C21029, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 26, City : San Jose, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Engineer, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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