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Summary Of King's Dream Remains An Elusive Goal
From watching the documentary White People as well as reading King’s Dream Remains an Elusive Goal, I feel that racial differences should be known, but people shouldn’t be discriminated against.

In King's Dream Remains an Elusive Goal the Pew Research Team states the results of their surveys polls, in which, blacks are mostly in the minority in several topics. Pew Research team says, “ They are also more likely to say that blacks are treated less fairly than whites by police, the courts, public schools and other key community institutions” (627). To back up that statement they quote, “For example, seven-in-ten blacks and about a third of whites (37%) say blacks are treated less fairly in their dealings with the police” (629). From being a high school graduate, marriage rate, median household wealth, home ownership etc, blacks are always in the minority even by the slightest bit. With all of the surveys held by Pew Research Team blacks never have a percentage higher than whites.
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Quite a few of them thought being white, they are falling into the minority, and aren't being given opportunities like other races. For example, academic scholarships, whites feel when they apply for scholarships they all refer to other races: African Americans, Latinos, Asians. But very few state for “whites”. While this does seem accurate, it was proven that other races are not in the majority when it comes to scholarships; it’s actually

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