How Does Bearden Achieve Social Inequality In America?

A worldwide superpower that refuses to cower in the face of danger, its inhabitants the same. Both citizens and residents alike are united under the well known red, white, and blue. Although united they are also starkly divided, separated by class. This division of class, in general, is an unfair distribution of people through race and economics with startling implications. These constructs support the separation of upper, middle, and lower class consisting of economically wealthy, economically well, and the economically poor. Trapped under the weight of these social biases America, although considered a financially stable middle class country, has many who are unable to escape the suppression caused by these divisions. In America, we “emulate”
In this village there was nothing to supplement the growing education Maria so desired and because of it she seeked better options. Her hope manifested into an American woman named Sandra Bearden, who offered Maria a proper education, as long a she became Bearden’s maid. This was an offer Maria could not refuse, with the chance to head to America, the land of plenty, she eagerly accepted. It was what then occurred after that no one could have predicted. Bearden “used violence and terror to squeeze work and obedience from [Maria]” (Bales 445). Bearden would “chain her to a pole in the backyard without food or water” when Maria was not working and would “blast pepper spray into Maria’s eyes” when she appeared not to be working fast or hard enough (Bales 445). It was eventually an inquiring neighbor that saved Maria from the repeated abuse she would receive. Sadly, many immigrants are treated in ways much like Maria and are powerless to change their situations. They seek a better life from what can be only described as humble beginnings and in their struggle are faced with terror. The class system is not kind to immigrants and because of it, they too are also suppressed in the perpetual
“The richest Americans hold nearly 90 percent of the total household wealth in the country” (Mantsios 380). That leaves a mere ten percent to be distributed among the rest of the population, this is a wide margin considering less than half the population holds the nation’s wealth. A wealth more evenly split would see a greater impact on those who would benefit most, those suffering who need more financial security.The middle class, a population keen on imitating the rich, would require the average worker making a salary of “$49,455 (the median income in the United States)” over “2,500 lifetimes to earn $10 billion”, which more than 70 of the 1,000 billionaires living in the United States are worth (Mantsios 380). The wealth of the nation is so unevenly distributed that many Americans are suffering, yet no improvements have been made. Americans have become neglectful of the class system and would rather ignore it than initiate