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Historical Report on Race

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Historical Report on Race/Ethnicity

As a Hispanic American I wanted to speak to you and express some of my concerns with the way the United States throughout history has treated my race. I wanted to speak to you about the experiences of Hispanic Americans in history. I also wanted to talk to you about positive and negative effects that have impacted the Hispanic Americans. Then I wanted to talk about challenges about inequities that we as a race face today.

As a Hispanic American today I have concerns with the way the United States throughout history has treated the Latinos. After the annexation of parts of Mexico in 1848 where nearly 80,000 individuals became U.S citizens, we have been fighting for our rights that we are entitled to in the United States. We have been fighting for voting rights, education, employment, and for social advancement. As we do the jobs most Americans will not do we are still not able to show our loyalty to the United States, or be accepted as part of Americans.

Today we are helping your economy in ways you cannot see. We are doing the jobs most Americans do not want to do like yard work, janitorial, and agriculture to name a few. It was stated in The Kugler (2015) website “that as new immigrants come into the country, the number of jobs offshored in the manufacturing sector decreases. By ensuring that more manufacturing jobs stay in the United States, not only do native-born manufacturing workers benefit, but the demand for services that the manufacturing industry relies upon—such as the transportation of manufacture goods throughout the United States—also remains high.” We would like to have the opportunity to help to stabilize our economy. We understand that not all things are positive about change and we understand that crime my increase with the increase of Latino’s present. But we need to try to find the positive and a way to increase the ability to work and decrease the negatives so that we can learn to help achieve this goal

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