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Relating To Kermit The Frog
While I may not be a frog, I can very much find myself relating to Kermit the Frog with his phrase, “It’s not easy being green.” One might laugh and say, “Alana! What would you know about what it’s like as a frog?” And the answer is I don’t. But I do know what it means to be a minority, which is what Kermit is; I do not know very many talking frogs. However like Kermit, in American history people have been set back because they were different from what society deemed “normal.” If we look back to early American history, African Americans were deemed lesser than and dirty because they were a different skin color. My people, the Native Americans, were also looked down on as savages, despite what societal systems were already in place when

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