Race has always been both a prominent and controversial issue in (American) society. For decades, civil rights leaders have tried to convey the message that all people are created equal. However, in order to achieve equality as a society, we must first recognize and accept our diversity. In order to do so, we must first embrace our diversity, so that we can take a stand in what we believe in and actively pursue reform. We are all diverse, different in our own ways, but yet equal at the same time. Society fails to see that concept; hence racism has become part of our supposedly “great” nation. What has American society got to do to overcome the division created by slavery, that well justifies that blacks have to be included into society. It is not fair for blacks. It dates back to when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was trying to
Cornell West states, “… the presence and predicaments of black people are neither additions to nor defections from American life, but rather constitutive elements of that life.” What West is saying is that there is a need to redefine America as it is no longer a them (minorities) and an us (majority). Blacks are constitutive elements of life, because without them there would be no whole. America is a whole; the people are the constituents that make up the whole. We must acknowledge that we are one as a people or E Pluribus Unum.
We have to take a stand in society so that we can better ourselves. Whites will continue to dominate (if their power isn’t challenged) because they will not easily give up their power. They don’t know how to share. Society has to redefine its ways of leading because we are at a point where all of us need to see our
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