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He talks about poor people and how they never really got a chance to work up to riches but instead were walked over and the gap between the rich and poor continued to increase. He explained the slavery of African Americans and the unfair treatment they got, and how the indigenous people had false hope or wished for something but never really got it. - Ramonchan

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I think the overall message Hughes is trying to convey is that America isn't what it claims to be. Land of freedom yet not everyone has that privilege. Liberty and equality for everyone in America, but the minorities are discriminated and suffering.
-Karen Chen

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Hughes explains that poor people, Indigenous people, and African Americans all deal with struggles in the U.S, and that America isn't a great place for them, even though it is viewed that way by outside people.

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I think the overall message is that he wanted freedom to happen of the ¨American dream¨ and also he wanted the same for the Indigenous people.

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Hughes said that the poor, Indigenous people, and African Americans built the country, but they don't get to enjoy it because they are oppressed.

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He talks about how the blacks went through slavery, the Native Americans were forced to change to be more like the white Americans, and how the poor people are still poor 

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He talks about how the blacks went through slavery, the Native Americans were forced to change to be more like the white Americans, and how the poor people are still poor 

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-Mya Smith

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Hughes wants all Americans to be treated equally and fairly, so that everyone can live their lives freely.

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The overall message was is that America never was a place of freedom and liberty to begin with, there have always been people that have faced injustice and oppression whether it be the poor, African Americans, immigrants, or Native Americans. Hughes tells us that we should strive toward making it the land of freedom that others make it out to be.

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I feel the overall message in his poem was he wanted America to be how it was described he wanted it to be the American dream.

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I think Hughes overall message was to explain what people had to go through such as the poor and the African Americans to explain all the struggles. He wanted everyone to be treated equally because of the "American dream".

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He discussed how Black people were considered slaves and servants, Indigenous people were being forced to be more like the Americans, and how the poor people were going to stay poor and unsucsessful

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I could clearly see what Hughes' was talking about and I could honestly relate to his message, though I was more disappointed in how it was just as relevant then as it is today.

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Hughes said that poor people, Indigenous people, and Black people all had a hard time in the US.

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Hughes used "I am" for the start of a lot of his examples. He talked about how African Americans went through slavery and had to bear scars. He also talked about people from factory workers to farmers and their jobs.

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I think Hughes overall message is to tell we have to stand up for our countries and make America again.

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I think Hughes overall message is to tell we have to stand up for our countries and make America again.

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-Alaya

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Hughes thinks that everyone in the U.S. should be treated the same because of the ¨American dream¨ and everyone is equal according to the Constitution.

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The poem talks about how the poorer people in America seem like worse people then the rich, but in reality it was that ordinary worker or slave that really made the country doing all the work while being taken advantage of by the rich white dude that reaped all the benefits and money from them.

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I think his overall message was that America never had liberty and justice for all and that freedom and equality was not given to everyone.

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The poem in a way exposes America as America is thought to be "the land of the free" and "the dream where dreamers dream" in a way a free paradise I suppose. It is called a land of equality and yet it wasn't in the past and still isn't. The author exposes the true America full of inequality, the land where free isn't free and the land where dreams remain dreams.

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I think the overall message is that America was never America to the poor, Indigenous, or African American people because they didn't experience the American dream or a land of equality and  America was made off the backs of them.

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Hughes said that Poor, Indigenous, and African People had a rough time in America since it wasn't equal.

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My impression of the poem was that I could feel the anger build up and that America isnt great right then.

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People that believe in the eugenics program would not like the message of the poem as it goes against everything the eugenics program stands for.

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I think the overall message is that Hughes wants everyone to be treated equally as we should be according to the constitution.