School districts across the Unites States are partitioned by wealth, unfairly segregating

students. Police forces arrest black individuals three times as often as those of other races,

unfairly dividing our nations population. Shockingly, the average white household holds 16

times the median wealth as that of a black family, unfairly separating our nation. Although some

analysts may say that Paines position on the American lifestyle holds true to this day, in fact, it

does not because of the vicious cyclic cycle of poverty in America and the novel policies of our

nations federal government limiting immigration to the United States.

25 percent of blacks in America suffer from poverty, drastically higher than the national

13 percent average. Compared to non-hispanic whites, this shocking imbalance represents a

cyclic cycle of poverty that is virtually unbreakable in one generation, or by a family in one

members lifetime. The white households in America are far more prosperous in the United

States compared to African American homes because of a vicious trap dictated by a need from

teen years to support a family and chronic, statistical lack of education in lower class families;

Returning the victim to the beginning of the cycle. This cycle of poverty is defined as when

poor families become impoverished for at least three generations, with no return from an

impoverished state.(Paine, 2). Because of this, the offspring of these poor generations are,

again, stuck under the median income levels. Thomas Paines analysis of an America in

which all people, regardless of race, ethnicity, or origin is purely and obviously false in

present, modern America.

Recently, policies instituted by the United States federal government have excluded

certain kinds of people from immigrating to our melting pot of a country. Thomas Paine

recollected of his era that the lived in that every part of the country could cordially and in piece,

and this is obviously and plainly not so. Apparently, this value is not evident in our government

or society today if we live in a country that allows the blocking and removal of types of people
based on origin and stereotyping. For example, a ban on immigration and travel to America from

certain Muslim-majority Middle Eastern countries has shocked a nation founded upon the

principles of fairness and immigration rights, especially during an age of racial tensions within

said nations own cities. Fueled by movements like Black Lives Matter, the tensions exacerbate

the already differing way of life from the one Thomas Paine once lived. Although some

believe that lapses in unity like these are not very prevalent in our society and that the standard

ideas outlined by Thomas Paine still hold true, this is simply false. Our nation is plagued by

disunity and racial separation, and is only digging itself a deeper a deeper hole with every new

issue, protest, and vocalization for change.

American society and the normal way of life has been changing for decades, centuries

now. It has oscillated between times of prosperity, to patriotism, to tensions, to goodwill, and

back again. Despite the ever changing situations and eras, the America we live in today is

nothing like that of Thomas Paines era, detailed in his famous pamphlets.