Always Running Louis Rodriguez Analysis

Copulation, formation, and gestation are the stages needed to create an entirely original individual. Inside the mother’s womb, the fetus is filled with potential. All men are created equal, but not all men are treated equal. As soon as the baby is born, it is shackled and branded with labels of sex, religion, race, and region—labels that cast the baby into the minority or the majority just after birth. The baby then grows up into a world where it may be discriminated against, tossed aside, treated unequally. Where does the small minority population of a country go to protect their rights when the majority rules the country?¬¬¬¬ Government owes protection of the inalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence, “life, liberty,
Minorities are subjugated daily and the government allows it to continue. Louis J. Rodriguez can attest to the persecution of immigrants in his book, “Always Running.” He claims that society treats Mexican immigrants as their “scapegoat” and condemns any and all actions they may take in order to present them as a different group entirely, the “enemy” (Rodriguez 250). Making the immigrants the enemy makes it easier to marginalize and criminalize the minority. That is why African Americans and Hispanics make up over 50% of the inmates in prison, but only constitute 25% of the US
More importantly, she wants reform in the government as a whole with more aid to the African American community. The song starts off with the lyric, “What happened at the New Wil’ins?” Messy Mya points out the dire need for governmental assistance after Katrina, that the black community did not receive. The whole song also serves as an anthem for the civil rights movement, Black Lives Matter. After a plethora of videos and court cases regarding black people dying by police brutality, a viral hashtag, #blacklivesmatter, appears. What does the majority do? They post #alllivesmatter in retaliation. The government owes protection of the unalienable rights that are supposed to be intrinsic in everyone; nonetheless, the so-called “criminals” are still being