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The History of Race in America Then and Now 

 The foundation of our nation is based upon the enslavement of one race and one group of peoples. This enslavement made white Americans forever think of African-American peoples as lesser.



" The negro has lost all property in his own person, and he cannot dispose of his existence without committing a sort of fraud...To be gree, with him, signifies to escape from all the shackles of society. "



"The negro makes a thousand fruitless efforts to insinuate himself amonst men who repusle him; he conforms to the tatstes of his oppressors, adopts their opinions, and ohpes by imitating them to form a part of their community. Having been told from infancy that his race is naturally inferior to that of the whites, he assensts to the proposition and is ashamed of his own nature.  __**In each of his features he discovers a trace of slavery, and, if it were in his power, he would willingly rid himself of everything that makes him what he is.**__ " - De Toqueville



 "A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment" 



As we try to break down the wall that separates the races, we find it difficult because of what has been instilled in us Americans for decades. We must change not only our laws, but our mores, to make any true difference.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain



And with our past forever living on with us, we charge forward to the future, with the hope of some day forgetting what happened years before and instead thinking of what is to be, and what CAN be.

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