Running Brave

The great white nation is composed by a 66% white people, 13% African American, 4% Asian, 2% of other races, and only 1% is compromised by the original inhabitants of the land. First of all I don’t know what could possibly be the great deal about being so proud of nation that they think is the white paradise when almost half the people living on the territory are not consider pure american for them.The labor force in the United States is looking better for the hispanic group with a 69% of participation versus white with only a 66% of participation. These numbers could be a little “tricky” because yes there’s a bigger white community in the United States but yet the number of people willing to do something better for themselves is higher by the percent in the hispanic group meaning that people not consider “american”, even though we live in the same continent, America, and some of us are even born citizens of the United States, are actually working harder in the country than those who call themselves the people who founded the country. About 12,000 years ago, maybe before, the land of what is now United States was populated by its original inhabitants and it wasn’t until the European explorations after 1492 that they were disturbed by the white people. The native american were settled for thousands of years in the land in peace but they were forced to move and settled reservations to the west side of the land as the europeans were conquering from the east founding a new country and trying to get over the Mississippi river. In American history books, the Indian Wars have often been treated as a relatively minor part of the military history of the United States and were long treated from the point of view of Americans.

In the movie Running Brave, Billy Mills, who I would call a dreamer is the author of one of the greatest upsets ever seen in sports history. As a distance runner, Billy Mills sprinted from third place to the front taking the gold medal in the 10,000 meter race at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Mills still holds the record for being the only american able to recover like that on an olympic race. Billy Mills went out of the reservation to Kansas University on the early stages of a rising capitalist white culture. Throughout history the people from the United States have demonstrate a lack of tolerance for what they consider foreigners. In this case the indian boy, Billy Mills, represents a threat for the whole team and teammates feel that he is trying to take over the school. Same stupid mentality happens with black people by that time who were not even able to attend school because they used to think they were not good enough for school. Another example is the latino community in the movie the roommate ask him if if he was a puertorrican or “something like that” hoping that he wasn’t. Clearly there is a racist tendency with non white people all over history and the native american group has been a target for hundreds of years  now. Billy Mills and his family felt like they couldn't fit in the world because they were not good enough for it or at least thats how they made him feel. On the olympic games he wasn’t on of the favorites even with the history he had running for collage, only one person was able to recognize his talent and that was the coach who went all the way to Japan to see him race.

After all these years people in the United states keep being racist and scare of other people to reach high into the states. One of the latest examples of it is the winning ticket of the Powerball Lottery in Puerto Rico. All over the social media people were writing racist comments about our island and our people because they don't see us as part of the states but sadly for all of them in the case of puertorrican we were born US citizens and in the case of natives americans that was their land for thousands of years. People in the United States need to learn that they are the foreigners on their own country and that they don’t need to share space with anyone is actually the native group who is being force to share their land.