chapter 7

While unfortunate, it’s just the same story over and over again. The United States desires a ruling class of whites for whatever naive reasoning that could be festered up: superior race, purity, etc. They, the people and the government, refused to extend citizenship to the Mexicans, the Puerto Ricans, the Asians, the Africans, and the Native Americans. This denied them the ability to vote or participate in the democratic government in general. In addition these groups were often, at first denied education, and only later given sub-par excuses for school systems, segregated from whites. The teacher quality was less, supplies were less, outdated, or non-existent. Eventually, these  schools would become tools of the government for sustaining whites as the ruling class. Some would be controlled by the government directly and purposely given these lower standards. While others were provided simply to shape the students into acceptable minorities. They would be deculturalized, taught American history and patriotic songs and holidays. English language only would be taught so to further the students even farther from their heritage. And if the education process wasn’t breaking you down and away from your ethnic background then it was merely training you to do what the white class deemed you fit for, such as sowing, cleaning farming and other laborious tasks that inferior races should do but now with proper work habits and morale behavior. How is it that a country completely based on immigration (from Europe but immigration none the less) could be so strongly against the immigration and assimilation of others who are merely looking for all the liberties and freedoms that others have achieved in the same country?