The United States of America was Founded on July 3, 1776. The founding fathers had the idea of a country not run by one person, but a democracy where everyone has a say in who is elected to represent them. They wanted a country where people can practice their religion freely, and be who they want. Fast forward three centuries and America is built around the 1%, America is the hard-working class, America is the melting pot, America is the land of the free and the home of the brave, America is the land of the travel ban, and America is the land of contradictions.
Langston Hughes, an American writer from Missouri, says he wants to “Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain”-(Langston Hughes page 42 Springboard). America should return to this state. The state where if you work hard you get rewarded for it. At present “Four of every 10 children (38.8 percent) are poor for at least one year before they reach their 18th birthday”-(urban.com). Even though unemployment is at the lowest we've seen in a while at “3.5”-(https://tradingeconomics.com). Which should result in fewer children having to live below the poverty line.
Something well-known about America is that it is an advocate for education. In the famous Franklin D. Roosevelt speech “Four Freedoms” he states that there is “Equal opportunity for youth and for others” (p. 50). He delivered this speech on January 4th, 1941, but in America's current climate “Racial quotas are implemented to admit a balanced number of students according to their ethnicity”-(studentpress.org). America needs to practice what they preach and make it so that everyone has the same opportunities, and not take race into account when making such critical decisions as education.
In 1849 Author Emma Lazarus says that America invites people that have been discarded by their home country in her famous poem “The New Colossus” saying “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!” but the 45th and current president Donald John Trump was instrumental in the implementation of a travel ban that bared off millions of people from entering the country that is considered a sanctuary.
All things considered, America is still the land of the 1%, the land of the hard-working class, the land of the melting pot, the land of the free and the home of the brave, the land of the travel ban, and America is still the land of contradictions. The American government needs to take a step back to move forward to what our founding fathers imagined America would be, a place where if you work hard you get rewarded for it.