The Role Of Oppression Of Minority Groups In America

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The child walks into the room afraid of all the very different and new things looking back at her. She cries profusely as her mother walks out the room kissing her forehead before departing. The little sad child looks around, and picks a quiet corner to hide away from the other kids around her. This is all happening while the mother too is behind the door crying along with her. It saddens her to leave her little girl there lost and confused in a world that is unknown to her. For years, this has been the minority groups in a place lost and confused, because a land that has a motto of being “land of the free,” although America has yet to hold truth to their saying with the oppression of many minority groups. The word minority as explored in this

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