Too many times people in society have “struggled up the mountain, measure ourselves against it, failed up there, [and] lived in its shadow” (Clare 24). It is unlikely, unless through rare chance, that a poor black kid raised in Chicago by a single mother would have the same opportunity that a white kid from a suburban two-parent household would have. The “American Dream” relies on “Equality of opportunity, [a] reasonable anticipation of success, Individual responsibility for success, and success as [a] virtue, failure as sin” (Weber 156). It places blame on an individual instead of us as a society. We must take responsibility for our part in ignoring the discrimination in society and in the laws passed. Eventually, with this acceptance of the racial, class, and gendered differences in our society the American Dream, or a form of it, can become a reality for many
Too many times people in society have “struggled up the mountain, measure ourselves against it, failed up there, [and] lived in its shadow” (Clare 24). It is unlikely, unless through rare chance, that a poor black kid raised in Chicago by a single mother would have the same opportunity that a white kid from a suburban two-parent household would have. The “American Dream” relies on “Equality of opportunity, [a] reasonable anticipation of success, Individual responsibility for success, and success as [a] virtue, failure as sin” (Weber 156). It places blame on an individual instead of us as a society. We must take responsibility for our part in ignoring the discrimination in society and in the laws passed. Eventually, with this acceptance of the racial, class, and gendered differences in our society the American Dream, or a form of it, can become a reality for many