Essay On Equal Opportunity In America

America: Home Of The Not So Free What defines success in America? Does everyone actually have equal opportunity? Even in today’s society does racism still exist? These were just some of the questions that popped into my head when I first begin research for this topic. My first though was that yes everyone does have an equal opportunity in America. However as I furthered my research on the topic I begin to realize just how wrong I was. After days of note taking and wracking my brain I decided to throw away that old thesis and develop a new one. I came to a realization that despite recent attempts to help minorities acquire equal rights in comparison to the whites of America that they are still rendered inadequate and that affects their success. So what is success? Regardless of the many personal definitions and the over all versatility given to the word success; Allen Smith from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines success as “The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.” While there are other less materialistic meanings of success what renders the minorities unable to achieve this …show more content…
George M. Fredrickson, author of “Models of American Ethnic Relations: A Historical Perspective” indicates that over America’s history there has been a substantial amount of variety in accordance to ethnic and racial background. In spite of that there are obvious structuring relationships between the minorities and dominant European descendant whites (565). As a nation we should not stand for that because it is morally wrong. We are supposed to be the land of the free yet the only real “free” people are those that can afford it. This country is run mafia style where the only people that benefit are the one percent that act as puppet masters to this kindergarten country pulling the strings as they wish to make as much money as possible. Everyone else is left to lie, steal, and cheat to make ends