The last few years have clearly proven that the harmony. prosperity. and progress for so many. which I like to think of as existing in America simply is not there. When Emma Lazarus penned the lines: "Give me your tired. your poor. your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." she was not speaking to the disinherited who were already In America. The "melting pot" theory of sociologists has worked for a great number of the immigrants who came here. fought for a place. were eventually accepted into the mainstream and assimilated into America. Mr. Speaker. one of the troubles with the "melting pot" in terms of the black American is that he was never allowed to mix in the pot with everybody else.
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