African Americans The American Dream Game Cartoon By...

The United States is famous for its American dream, which ensures equal opportunity for all, but African Americans experience a more diluted form of the dream due to their innate reductions in socioeconomic mobility. African Americans differ from White Americans physiologically only in skin pigmentation; however, as depicted in The American Dream Game cartoon by David Horsey, a political commentator and cartoonist with extensive experience in social and political issues, various race-induced obstacles prevent them from attaining the same degree of mobility as White Americans (2014). The lack of socioeconomic mobility for African Americans can be accredited to historical hindrances, lowered educational opportunities, and discriminations Socioeconomic mobility can be either intergenerational, when â€Å"a person is better off than their parents or grandparents†, or Intragenerational, when â€Å"income and status changes within a person or group’s lifetime† as defined by Joe Carter, a communications specialist for the Southern Baptist Convention on Ethics and Religious Liberty (2015). African Americans have faced impediments that have halted their intergenerational mobility and created a downward trend in intragenerational mobility. The problem with a lack of socioeconomic mobility is that African Americans are staying frozen in their status generation after generation. If the predisposed impediments that accompany African American heritage are exposed and voiced, then a bigger effort