Hannah Jones Reflection

The African-Americans were in a search for their freedom, they were not on the side of leaving this country no matter what. The White Americans, like Lincoln, were thinking that African-Americans were the ones to blame because of the Civil War. Unlike them, African-Americans had the idea of no leaving this country, because they had longer and worked harder for it, so they have even more rights and reasons to stay here, in the United States. This can be compared to the actual situation with the immigrants. The U.S has been like this since the beginning of the country. Immigrants are the ones who built this country, and the ones who made what the whites think is their property. Most of them, if not all, think they are the real owners and the real “Americans”. However, when we see how much other races are pushing for this country, how much this country uses immigrants to be what it is, is this nation really a one who can say they are Whites and just Whites? Would this country be the same if just “AMERICANS” were here? No, it wouldn’t, I don’t think this country would even have succeed like it is now. The reason of this “we” or “us” it’s because we like it or not, “we” are “we”, and “they” are “they”. This means that in some way even if where are all persons, when you think of “we” talking about races, you think of you and many other people, not including other races, while if you say “they” you may think of other community discourse, such as White race. When we see that the true Americans are the conjunction of all the races on this country, can we see us as an evil country? No, we accept everyone, we use everyone, and everyone agrees with this kind of barter because our country it’s not just those White Americans who think they’re this country, which is not true. This country is the combination of many races, places, cultures, this country is the desire of evolution and personal growth. Legally, yes I’m an American, but when I have to say where I’m from, nothing more than my loved country Dominican Republic comes to be the answer with no regret or doubt. Slavery comes to be us the ones who put them in their horrible situation, but when the homeless, the people on the streets, on the subways, etc, come to be people who made horrible decisions, who are there because they want to, and some of them have the disgrace of being in a situation either mental or physical that they can’t escape of. Are we being like the slavers? I don’t think so, the government does some help for them, which I think may be to minimum, but at the same time I don’t feel anything about those people who have that situation because most of the didn’t come to birth with this, they had the choice and they still have it, but they fail to take it by themselves. Because the country I was raised is not the U.S, I lacked a lot in terms of U.S history, so this articles helped my a lot to know more about this precious country which has very terrifying and surprising history that should be in the hands and knowledge of everyone who lives here. For example, I didn’t know much about the African-Americans who helped with the laws of equality in the south, that surprised me, and even if it was long ago, made me feel well for them. This make think about the actual situation of the U.S and the war against the racism, which should have been already eradicated by this time. Specially their quote of “we are the true Americans”, “America is built in racism”, etc. Thanks to the reading I see more clearly why this is NOT true on any sense and why this thinking is wrong. This is because America is built by plenty amount of races, but more than anything, the African-Americans, and not to mention the Natives Americans.