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How difficult is it to just respect the hard work and pay admiration of others and disregard the race issue? My family has been in the States for 23+ years now.
We also started with nothing but a dream. My father, a clothing factory production manager came to US had to settle for a dishwasher job to raise three children.
I'm an engineer now with a large, privately own company in the Midwest. My younger brother may soon become an elementary school principal in Southern Cal. My sister, married to a British immigrant is a very happy housewife. Have we achieved our American Dream, perhaps in some ways.
Nobody came around to give us a house, a job or a car. I flipped burgers in high school days. Worked production assembly through college. I had to send out resumes and wait for a phone call / interview just like everyone else. So, whose job did I steal? I had to qualify for a home loan, a car loan. Make my monthly payments, state / federal taxes? Whose house did I steal?
America the melting pot, has been and always will be. No matter how some shallow, narrow minded individuals may view it differently.
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