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ok so basically his message is that despite the fact that we are led to believe that we can all accomplish the american dream, the truth is that the country as a whole cannot truly experience it because it relies on the oppression of others in order for the upper class to have more. people who want to enjoy the riches, stay at a hotel, and eat quality food will always have someone "beneath" them working to get them money, cleaning the hotel rooms, and cooking their food for little to no money. america can only truly be great when everyone is ACTUALLY treated equally and has equal opportunities to achieve "the dream"

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They wouldn't like it because they thought that if you were wealthy and American that your kids wouldn't be 'defected'. But if you were the poor, Indigenous people, or an African American your children would be 'defected'.

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My impression is that this person writing the poem obviously didn't believe America was truly the land of the free. He gave many examples of people who didn't seem free at all like Poor man, Indian's and Negro's.

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My first impression of the poem is that it is about the hardships that many Americans face that are ignored by privileged people.

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Very powerful and stronghearted. You can clearly tell he hopes for change and he is empowering others to help him bring about the free american dream that he refers too. He states that he hasn't really felt at home here because of all the racial tensions and he strives to make it a place for all

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I'm pretty sure at one point of the poem he was saying that America's land belonged to the poor, indigenous and the african Americans because they were the ones that built everything.

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He states the hardships that they went through to better explain that America isn't as "equal" as they make it seem.

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To me, the poem discussed the hardships of many Americans, and the injustices which they had to deal with. There were freedoms, however it seemed as if those freedoms only went to certain people, while everyone else was ignored.

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He said that they were the ones who built America- Neha Rai

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People who believe in the eugenics program could say that hughes' poem and the program are similar. The lower class was considered the "lesser" people in the poem. In the eugenics program people with bad genes were considered "lesser".

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My first impression was that people such as the poor, African Americans, natives, and immigrants weren't living in the America everyone dreamed it to be.

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My first Impression of the poem is that the person who is writing the poem feels as if America isn't living up to what it claims to be.

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My first Impression of the poem is that the person who is writing the poem feels as if America isn't living up to what it claims to be.

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What Hughes says is that the African Americans are getting replaced by machines, indigenous people are getting driven out of their land, and that the poor are losing their hope. He is also trying to say that immigrants had left their old life behind to start a new life in America where there are endless opportunities and freedom.

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My first impression of the poem was that the land and people are/were not free like they wanted American people to believe.

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What Hughes says about the poor, Indgenous people and African America is that they are not treated equally treated and hoe they were the ones who build America, he also said they deserved the American land more. -Krishala Osti

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 He explains that poor people, indigenous people, and African Americans are oppressed in this country and they are not really free in this "free land" - Daisy

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 He explains that poor people, indigenous people, and African Americans are oppressed in this country and they are not really free in this "free land" - Daisy

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I think Hughes' overall message is about how the lower class and immigrants never got the American dream and how immigrants were not given freedom and equality.

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I read the first section and thought it was about slavery.

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Hughes says how the poor, indigenous people, and African Americans were the ones who built America. 

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Hughes says how the poor, indigenous people, and African Americans were the ones who built America. 

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He said that America was the indigenous people and the African Americans because they helped build America in the first place.

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I thought that it meant that America has turned away from the freedom land that is used to be and that it is doing to its citizens what it originally tried to escape from.

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ok so basically they would not believe that this poem is truthful, and maybe even believe that people should be treated as less than because of the idea they are naturally inferior

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He explains that poor people, indigenous people, and African Americans were not treated equally even though America is supposed to be about equality.

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Although America is the "Land of the free" many people aren't as free as others.

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My first impression is that the author believes that the American people aren't living the true "American life". We aren't really as free as we think we are.