Each and every day, this country that so many immigrants come to have the piece of American dream and equality has completely changed and/or stripped. We see that United States has become a melting pot, but we see a real problem of race, religion, and economic inequality.
Economic inequality
On Tuesday, PBS Newshour had an excellent piece called Land of the Free, Home of the Poor where the top 20% of Americans now holds 84% of U.S. wealth. Click here to read more. In addition, there was two surveys done where Americans were asked to identify wealth distribution in the U.S. In another, Americans were asked to choose which society they would prefer to live in. Interesting enough, most of them chose the country Sweden where they preferred to live in. Here is what the wealth distribution pie chart looks like:'Freedonia' (an equality utopia that does not exist in which would be nice in the U.S.), Sweden, and the United States. You will notice the economic inequality that we have in this country:
Race and religion inequality
We have the freedom of religion as stated in the Bill of Rights. Unfortunately, the chaos in this country especially the prejudice and attacks against Muslims is mindboggling. I received an email from an organization that is spreading the word on religion inequality among the Muslims in this country. I share this video from the organization called My Fellow American. What is My Fellow American?
My Fellow American is an online film and social media project that calls upon concerned Americans to pledge and spread a message that Muslims are our fellow Americans. It asks people of other backgrounds to pledge, and share a real life story about a Muslim friend, neighbor, or colleague that they admire. Using the power of social media, My Fellow American seeks to change the narrative – from Muslims as the other, to Muslims as our fellow Americans.
Here is the video:
Maybe most Americans as well as many politicians on Capitol Hill and in all 50 states that so in fear of the Muslim community should be reminded of the words by MalcolmX when he was interviewed 40 + years ago of his visit to Mecca:
MalcolmX:"When I was on the pilgrimage, I had close contact with Muslims whose skin would in America be classified as white and with Muslims who would themselves be classified as white in America, but these particular Muslims didn't call themselves white. They looked upon themselves as human beings, as part of the human family and therefore they looked upon all other segments of the human family as part of that same family. Now, they had a different look or a different air or a different attitude than that which is reflected in the attitude of the man in America who calls himself white. So I said that if Islam had done this-- done that for them, perhaps if the white men in America would study Islam, perhaps it could do the same thing for him."
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