Equality for All

America is know to be the land of opportunity and the land of freedom. Yet, it has only been about 200 years since the end of slavery, and blacks have been in America for almost 400 years. When many people think of America, they think of equality no matter the race or ethnicity. But when you look at the socioeconomic status of different races, African-Americans and Hispanics seem to dominate the lower income class opposed to the high income class which is dominated but mostly white Americans. In the DC public school systems, the quality of education does not reach the standards of "equal" education. Some schools haven't been repaired since the 1960s, such as my neighborhood school (Coolidge Highschool), there's a lack of teachers, and schools don't provide the essential tools needed to carry out the lessons. And one other thing...most of the public schools have black students. Naturally the world wouldn't work if everone was chief, but the gap between the rich and poor in this country is so wide that to call it the "country of equality" is just presumptuous.