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The American Dream and African Americans

. There is still a very large inequality among blacks. With an education, discipline, and motivation, blacks could overcome anything: prejudice, segregation, poverty, and racial inequality. To succeed, they must give up their attitude of “this can only be solved with violence” stereotype and the typical “I don’t care.” Barbara Ransby of the University of Illinois at Chicago states that “the connection between racism and class discrimination in this country has always been deep and intricate, after all, slavery is where it all began.” As long as this keeps happening, America will continue to treat blacks by their color, not character . What the Black Americans can do to make their situation for the betterIt is appaling to realize the number of pathetic people who are hampered and made miserable by the malady popularly called the inferior complex . This is what the African american community is suffering from, so it may seem like the best thing for them to do is go to a phycologist. Unfortunately it seems a lot easier than truly is, and the pride of the community will prevent it from happening. And we all know that the economic status of many black americans will keep this from happening. So what can the African Americans do to change their social status? Work. This is the only thing that anyone can do, but this is exceptionally difficult because there is an entire group of millions of people that must work. This work is not the typical kind of work, it is a struggle for social equality. The situation isn’t the same as it had at one time been and people are not as prejudice as the had once been....

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