An America Profile

America: A land of opportunities, a land of pristine beauty, mountains, wilderness and rolling plains from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean. Scores of migrants by the hundreds and thousands from far away distance places took to the seas for a new beginning and promise land. They plowed and cultivated the land and built settlements by hand. Eventually, they migrated North, South and West by foot, cover wagons across the open plains guided only by their will, faith and dreams of freedom. They were not alone Native-Americans, indigenous people, who ancestors live upon the land for generations was force into reservations. Overtime war became the rule and not the exception bringing diseases and genocide upon the people.

However American greatest sin: Slavery. For 300 years Africans was captured and sold into bondage which created the economic engine and infrastructure that built America with their blood, sweat and tears. Millions of slaves parish and millions more slave survive the “the crossing.” Africans are the only ethnic group who did not migrate to America by choice. Afro-America decendents of slaves does still bares the burden of scares of slavery to this day.

America is changing. Bye the year 2050, there will be more people of color. Therefore America will change too. An inscription on the Status of Liberty reads:

“...give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

These words still hold true.

Empire rises and empire falls. Great nations are created and develop. Great nations are not born out of power but born out of the diversity of its people. We the people are a nation of immigrants and diversity. After all of its past history, trials and tribulations, America is a great nation.