America Is A Changing Society

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America is a welcoming and changing society which needs to care for it’s evolving citizenship. In all honesty, I don’t see that happening. Based on recent events of the “changing society”, there have been many ethnic and racial issues because of events that have been happening these past few days. Looking into things like Trump's "stand" on athletes taking a knee during the national anthem shows that he does not even understand what the whole "taking a knee" stand even is if anything he's opening his mouth because he can. More racial issues came about as Trump's travel ban was starting to take place. Based on statements from an article (Trump's Travel Ban to Be Replaced by Restrictions Tailored to Certain Countries By Michael D. Shear and

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