Despite the minor changes, the American Dream has always sought out to be about social mobility, equality, and equal opportunity. However, it was never attainable for everyone. Individuals that were not White, male, heterosexual, landowners, slave owners, educated, wealthy, well-connected faced intentional, institutionalized and marginalizing hardships. Such discrimination prevented them achieving the so-called American dream which contradicted the founding principles which America and the American Dream was built on. Today, however, the American dream remains unattainable because minorities, those that do not resemble the people which the dream was intended for, face disparities in education, income and overall quality of life.
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Cal Thomas, in his article, “Is the American Dream Over”, supports that “The creation of a government that is out of control and thus out of touch, robs every citizen, preventing the fulfillment of the original American dream”. Although the government is often blamed for many problems, its role in governing the U.S is often negative. Moreover, the government is focusing on aspects of societal values that will not benefit the futures generations of kids, instead, it is producing individuals with “entitlement mentalities”; individuals that are only thinking of themselves and not what will benefit the country as a …show more content…
"It was an explicit, racially purposeful policy that was pursued at all levels of government, and that 's the reason we have these ghettos today and we are reaping the fruits of those policies.” He talking about the origin of the ghettos, the New Deal Public Works Administration created by government officials led to the racially segregated areas and the Federal Housing Administration which offered lower interest rates to banks if they did not sell houses to African-Americans and some other minorities. Prices were higher in the ghettos, the standard of living was worse and acts such as “blockbusting” drove housing prices way higher than most African-Americans could afford and drove Whites out of the areas. The simple fact that such slums were created only to hurt minorities, suggests that the government did not perform their rightful job and that they were not creating strong foundations for individuals. To reiterate, if the foundations were not intended, the overall concept is unattainable, especially if all the odds are against those
First, income …show more content…
Cal Thomas, in his article, “Is the American Dream Over”, supports that “The creation of a government that is out of control and thus out of touch, robs every citizen, preventing the fulfillment of the original American dream”. Although the government is often blamed for many problems, its role in governing the U.S is often negative. Moreover, the government is focusing on aspects of societal values that will not benefit the futures generations of kids, instead, it is producing individuals with “entitlement mentalities”; individuals that are only thinking of themselves and not what will benefit the country as a …show more content…
"It was an explicit, racially purposeful policy that was pursued at all levels of government, and that 's the reason we have these ghettos today and we are reaping the fruits of those policies.” He talking about the origin of the ghettos, the New Deal Public Works Administration created by government officials led to the racially segregated areas and the Federal Housing Administration which offered lower interest rates to banks if they did not sell houses to African-Americans and some other minorities. Prices were higher in the ghettos, the standard of living was worse and acts such as “blockbusting” drove housing prices way higher than most African-Americans could afford and drove Whites out of the areas. The simple fact that such slums were created only to hurt minorities, suggests that the government did not perform their rightful job and that they were not creating strong foundations for individuals. To reiterate, if the foundations were not intended, the overall concept is unattainable, especially if all the odds are against those