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We as American citizens are gathered here together as one to answer to one of America's many problems Classism. Classism is the systematic oppression of people being placed in a lower class, rank, or position by the dominant class. It includes individual attitudes and behaviors, systems of policies and practices that are set up to benefit the upper classes at the expense of the lower classes. Classism explains how people are ranked according to socioeconomic status, family lineage, and other class related divisions. This system leads to a drastic income and wealth inequality.
This inequality is what we need to focus on. We're at a point right now where we need to come together as one, fight as one, and solve every issue like this one as one. The unfair distribution of wealth prevents our society from enjoying full financial benefits. This unfair distribution of wealth causes nothing but misery for the working class and poor people. I've seen working class people give a helping hand to those who are poor and of higher class. Now why is it that I've never seen a person of higher class ever help those in the working class and even poor people. Why is it that those who are in the higher class recieve special attention, better health care, better food, a better chance of doing anything. It's a cycle for the higher class, if your wealth is great you only help those who have greater wealth. This keeps us, "the people," from breaking that wall that seperates us from them, the poor from the rich, the lower class from the upper class. I feel we can break that wall and come together. Spread the wealth to those less fortunant rather then turning away because of his or her class rank. This seperation only feeds the saying " Survival of the fittest" well I feel it's time we come up with a new saying for a new plan that promises a new way of living.

When you see or hear that theirs 31 million poor people in America thats when we the people have to stand up and say this isn't right we need to figure something out in order to fix this problem. I remember as a young child attending Brooklyn Prepatory High School observing classism first hand. These two young boys were disrespecting this young lady because of the way she spoke. One of the boys was lower class and the other upper class but still were friends. When both of the boys were caught and sent to the principals office their parents were notified and told of the disrespectful act they each committed. Now each of the boys parents showed up to the school. Now to make the story short the boys were given seperate punishments due to their class rank. The upper class boy recieved a low punishment. He had to sit in the office 10 minutes after the school bell rang because of his "rank." While the lower class boy recieved 4 weeks of detention. I feel that we all should learn from this it shouldnt matter what class rank you have you are not better then the other we all share pain we all share happiness we all share problems. A problem is a problems no matter what and when faced with a problem we do whatever it takes to solve it. Thats what we're going to do cause we can as one.