Racism In American Society

Simply put, a representative democracy is a system of government in which all eligible citizens vote on representatives to pass laws for them. As Americans, we elect a president and members of Congress, and also elect local and state officials. All of these elected officials supposedly listen to the populace and do what is best for the nation, state or jurisdiction as a whole. Is this real autotomy of choice? If so does the hypocritical platform that America was founded upon affect our present day lives? Voting officials into office to make decisions for us does not constitute real freedom or liberty of choice. Every decision made in contemporary American government is affected and altered by the way American freedom was developed.
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Imported in from Africa, through the slave trade of the 16 and 1700’s, enslaved Africans became the back bone work force for the American south for almost 200 years. The founding fathers excluded them completely from granting them any rights what so ever, most of which even owned numerous slaves. It was not until president Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860 and stated the emancipation proclamation thus freeing slaves and igniting the civil war. Although free from that point of slavery, African Americans were not granted equal protection of the law and granted full legal rights until the civil rights era almost exactly 100 years after the civil war. This led to major race relation problems in America today. We constantly see in the news today, true or not, police targeting blacks much more than any other races throughout the country. Yes we have made massive strides in this specific realm, the hypocritical foundation of our country will always affect how we as us citizens interact and climb the social
What they found was extremely unsettling: The opinions of the bottom 90% of income earners in America has essentially no impact at all.” If you take any idea, does not matter how popular or unpopular, it has about a 30 percent chance of passing in congress. This however does not apply to the economic elite percent of Americans. They on the other hand have an about doubled percent chance of passing the legislation they want to see passed. How can America thrive as a nation when an over whelming percent of constituents voices are not heard in government. This is a trend noticed and predicted by the likes of both Tocqueville, Plato and numerous political philosophers before