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America Is Not A Land Of Opportment In America, A Land Of Opportunities?

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America is said to be the land of opportunities, a land of chances, a land to start a new life. Many people were seduced by this sweet lie, mostly by the fact that they can start fresh or start a new life. Personally, I disagree with these statements because many facts have shown that most people that immigrate to the US is not as successful as others and another example is how African-Americans were denied being successful. The reasons that America is not a land of opportunities are many people are discriminated based on their race, most white people sees other races as unwanted and led to segregation, and most laws before the end of 1920s is biased to most whites. First of all, the main reason that America is not a land of opportunity at this time is discriminations against race and genders. As an example, blacks in the Reconstruction era are really discriminated and treated like slaves or criminals and they are worthless and unneeded by the whites. “Johnson believed that African-American had no role to play in Reconstruction” this quote can be found in the lecture notes and it proves my point that in the Reconstruction era African-Americans or Blacks are mistreated and didn’t even seen as equal human beings by the majority or White Southerners. We can see more mistreatment in African-Americans through the Black Codes. Based on the lecture, the black codes restrict African-Americans rights as human beings and most of these codes are inhumane. According to the Louisiana

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