Rereading America 2

Stephen Cruz presents the idea that the American dream has many deceiving aspects to it. When he first began his career he was naïve about the American Dream. He thought that if a person worked hard that they would be able to accomplish the Dream of having a lot of money and a high position in management. But as he became more experienced and began to observe how people treated minorities in the places he worked, he noticed that the American Dream was complicated and only attainable to certain people. That the Dream wasn’t just about going to college, working hard, and showing dedication. But it was about power and the supremacy of one race having higher ranking and complete control over the whole American governmental system. Cruz also came to the conclusion that the American dream’s definition was based off of the notion of that a small elite group.
I agreed with almost everything Stephen Cruz was saying in his argument. Accomplishing the American Dream or any type of success in America is so hard for minorities. Even now, in this century, it’s hard. It’s so difficult to movie up in life because the dominant race in this country keeps minorities from obtaining high positions. It’s like they have their own inner circle and they are fearful that if they let minorities in to powerful positions, then they might actually help this country. It’s like these people want to keep us down. No wonder why minorities can’t become successful in life. It’s because high white officials aren’t trying to improve anything. They say they are but I swear they are too busy collecting pay checks for themselves then actually helping minorities in this country. How are we supposed to be one of the richest country’s and we can’t even raise our working poor’s wages? We’re too busy giving too much money to powerful people while other people suffer.
One thing I did not agree with in this argument was when Cruz was trying to get all the minorities to interact with one another, and the blacks and Orientals weren’t interested in participating. Well Cruz made a comment about how it doesn’t matter if a black person is called black or a Negro. Actually it does matter, especially when someone form another race says it even if they’re a minority. That’s a touchy subject.
The American Dream should not be limited to a certain race, it’s unconstitutional and goes against everything this country stands for. I don’t think it’s ever going to change though. If it were going to change it would have happened already. Someone is probably trying to initiate change, but the power hungry, one-minded individuals who run this country have much more power than they do.