It's a Better World Now

It's a Better World Now For many years, the American people have been immersed in a heated debate about racism due to the multi-cultural and ethnic differences. Many were frightened, uneducated, and ignorant to learn about others and turned to discrimination as a solution to their social and economic difficulties. In his essay The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin shared his life predicaments and some racial dilemmas that occurred in the mid-1900s. He asserted …

…other ethnicities whereas in Baldwin's time, people were fighting for rights, justice, and equality. People back then were angry because they received maltreatment and they were competing with one another for occupation. Now that our economy has improved and the rate of poverty has decreased, people are not as concern about their family's income. People are much nicer because they want to improve the country so that their children will experience better treatments and education.