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**"We Don't Want Nobody Nobody Sent" //American Exclusivity//** ====== "The Puritans did not want "no guy that no guy sent." That meant anyone who did not follow the Puritans' strict antiestablishment orthodoxy. Catholics and Jews were welcome as long as they did not mind being burned at the stake." -Howard Fineman, __Thirteen American Arguments__

 "It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society." -Nathaniel Hawthorne, __The Scarlet Letter__ 



He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.' Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder If I could put a notion in his head: 'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. Something there is that doesn't love a wall That wants it down.'

Selection from Robert Frost's //Mending Wall // media type="youtube" key="MEEpavnk7Uw" height="265" width="320" While at first glance, Disney may not seem like the most intellectual place to glean information on the American Character, just try it. It seems that we have made it through all four of the steps in this cycle of improving race relations in America. We know racsim exists, we have passed laws elected an African American president, we have tried to make the races equal, we have had dreams of an America where skin color plays no role. But look where we are now...

Why haven't race relations improved?

"Almost insurmountable barriers had been raised between [the races] by education and by law." "Slavery recedes, but the prejudice to which is has given birth remains stationary." -Alexis de Tocqueville, __Democracy in America__

Reflection on Exclusivity American Stagnancy