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White America?

I am a white male in living in modern America. I am unsure of my ethnic background as there are pieces of my family history I still have yet to research. My Great-Grandfather was a full-blooded Cherokee, and my biological father had an Indian bloodline as well, although I cannot locate him to question the bloodline. I was born in Arkansas and moved to Illinois when I was five. Living in Illinois, approximately 80 miles southwest of Chicago, I was exposed to quite a few different ethnic groups. Since I know so little about my Indian heritage, I will focus this essay on English immigration, and how racial tensions between black and white America, continue to this day.
The English are recognized with colonizing America when the first township of Jamestown, in what is present day Virginia, was created in 1607. Life was difficult at first for the newly settled Jamestown. Thinkquest states on their website: “The village was often attacked by......

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