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Well this isa story of someone who actually did. Roberta Alexander is a 68 year old woman that was apart of so much of our American history, from the free speech movement to the Black Panthers. She is a sue- cessful teacher at San Diego City College with an amazing set of views on the “so called American Dream.” Her American Dream con- sists of changing how people view it. She currently believes that the American Dream isn’t treating everyone fairly and that there is a bet- ter solution to our problems. Roberta's early life had a huge factor on her American Dream, She was the child to a mother born in the U.S. but with Lithuanian and Jewish roots, and a father who was Black and Scott-Irish. Her father was born and grew up on a Native American reservation in Walthill, Nebraska. When asked about her parent's views on the American Dream, she replied, "Because of my parents experiences with life, es- ‘pecially my dad, they became very radical, politically, and felt that there needed to be major changes in how the United States was orga- nized so that poor people and working people had a better opportunity in life, and maybe, just maybe, reach that so called American Dream." She goes on to say how her parents were very critical of the govern- ment and big businesses because of the danger of a rich poor gap, "especially with people of color." She remembers that a person's color ‘was a big issue in society.