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AS OUR COUNTRY BECOMES MORE MULTIRACIAL, ARE WE BECOMING MORE TOLERANT AND ACCEPTING? Multiracial America
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AS OUR COUNTRY BECOMES MORE MULTIRACIAL, ARE WE BECOMING MORE TOLERANT AND

ACCEPTING?

Multiracial America

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What is Race?

–noun 1. a group of persons related by common descent or heredity. 2. a population so related. 3. Anthropology . a. any of the traditional divisions of

humankind, the commonest being the Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negro, characterized by supposedly distinctive and universal physical characteristics: no longer in technical use.

b. an arbitrary classification of modern humans, sometimes, esp. formerly, based on any or a combination of various physical characteristics, as skin color, facial form, or eye shape, and now frequently based on such genetic markers as blood groups.

c. a human population partially isolated reproductively from other populations, whose members share a greater degree of physical and genetic similarity with one another than with other humans.

4. a group of tribes or peoples forming an ethnic stock: the Slavic race.

5. any people united by common history, language, cultural traits, etc

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The people of America hail from all over the world and all walks of life. No one “owns” America, we are all immigrants.

Our Country is Heterogeneous.

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The true Native Americans were persecuted and thought of to be “racially inferior”.

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Fought to gain America’s freedom and Independence.

The freedom and rights of all non whites was Achieved.

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Fought to Free the Slaves in America.

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though

passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory will

swell when again touched as surely they will be by the better angels of

our nature.”

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"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside

the golden door."

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America’s Fight for the Freedom of the Jewish People.

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When they askedIf I was Black or White

or what.I said:I was Black and White

and whatdifferencedid it make to them.and they said:did I have the answers

to the math problems?

and I had the answers.

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Its something we as humans ALL have to

work towards.