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AS OUR COUNTRY BECOMES MORE MULTIRACIAL, ARE WE BECOMING MORE TOLERANT AND
ACCEPTING?
Multiracial America
What is Race?
–noun 1. a group of persons related by common descent or heredity. 2. a population so related. 3. Anthropology . a. any of the traditional divisions of humankind,
the commonest being the Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negro, characterized by supposedly distinctive and universal physical characteristics: no longer in technical use.
b. an arbitrary classification of modern humans, sometimes, esp. formerly, based on any or a combination of various physical characteristics, as skin color, facial form, or eye shape, and now frequently based on such genetic markers as blood groups.
c. a human population partially isolated reproductively from other populations, whose members share a greater degree of physical and genetic similarity with one another than with other humans.
4. a group of tribes or peoples forming an ethnic stock: the Slavic race.
5. any people united by common history, language, cultural traits, etc
The people of America hail from all over the world and all walks of life. No one “owns” America, we are all immigrants.
Our Country is Heterogeneous.
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside
the golden door."
What is race?
The true Native Americans were persecuted and thought of to be “racially inferior”.
Fought to gain America’s freedom and Independence.
The freedom and rights of all non whites was Achieved.
Fought to Free the Slaves in America.
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though
passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will
swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of
our nature.”
America’s Fight for the Freedom of the Jewish People.
When they askedIf I was Black or White
or what.I said:I was Black and White
and whatdifferencedid it make to them.and they said:did I have the answers
to the math problems?
and I had the answers.
