The Importance Of Segregation In America

America is a country built on an innumerable web of inconsistencies. The pledge of allegiance ends with “liberty and justice for all,” but in reality, throughout most of American history, that has truly meant “liberty and justice for cisgendered, heterosexual, able-bodied, neurotypical, adult white males.” To make things even more complicated, we are still struggling to define who can be racially classified as “white” even today. It seems as though in order for a group of people to be considered white, they need to leave behind their cultural roots and redirect any prejudice they face towards the black community. The term “white” itself was founded for the purpose of creating a social hierarchy. It helped to separate European Americans from