In Our America, I think the biggest theme that is followed is either the American Dream and/ or race equality. This story is all about how unfortunate many families, especially kids are in the Ida B.Wells housing. Kids daily are shot and killed, steal from other children, rob stores, join gangs, drop out of school and get pregnant at a very young age. These children are constantly trying to just survive and stay alive, never having a normal childhood, and growing up too quickly. Also, I think it's so unfortunate that there used to be actual homes where these buildings went up and children were, at some point in time, able to play outside on playgrounds and without supervision, knowing that they would be safe. When one of the men that LeAlan interviewed said something about how stacking poor people on top of poor people doesn't help anybody and make their community better, he was absolutely right. These conditions are horrible and nobody is able to climb the ladder in society living in these conditions and in these neighborhoods.
My big questions for this story are two; 1, How can people live in these conditions, and 2, how can people who live and/ or don't live in these neighborhoods not try to better the community by cleaning up these trashy parts. If an entire community comes together, they can get the attention of the city and possibly the nation by asking for help, starting to move in a better direction and tearing down these high rises. Just like how the nation payed attention for a while after the death of the five year old, which actually didn't have a positive affect in the end, in which the nation said they would help, yet didn't. But maybe a positive thing such as the community coming together would help them.
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