Kristof. Argument

"U.S.A., Land of Limitations?"
Nicholas Kristof 

    This author, Nicholas Kristof, argues that while we were once a land of opportunities, we are now a land of limitations largely due to the class gap. Kristof says that 
   "The chance of a person who was born to a family in the bottom 10 percent of the income distribution rising to the top 10 percent as an adult is about the same chance as a dad who is 5 feet 6 inches tall having a son who grows up to be over 6 feet 1 inch tall... It happens, but not often"( Kristof). 
   Kristof is saying that those born into the bottom 10, have almost no chance of rising out of that bottom no matter how hard they work because they have a lack of opportunities. 
Kristof says "They (children in Poverty in America) grow up not in a 'land of opportunity', but in the kind of socially rigid hierarchies that our ancestors fled, the kind of society in which your outcome is largely determined by your beginning"(Kristof). 
    Kristof doesn't focus on race but rather on class which encompasses multiple races. This way he can show that poverty doesn't favor one specific group, although there are less white folks in poverty compared to other ethnic groups. Kristof uses the example of his friend Rick and how he was smart, talented and worked hard yet he could never rise out of the bottom 10 percentile class which he was born into (Kristof). 
   Kristof raises a point from Delpit's piece. Delpit discussed the issue children in the lower class faced, being cast aside and written off because they didn't respond the way that teachers wanted them too. Kristof says that his friend Rick was pushed aside by teacher because of an undiagnosed ADD and was punished for missing school by a suspension of 6 months. 
   So to take form Johnson's piece, "Why can't we all get along?" Because there are such things as class gap, racial gap, gender gaps, and every gap in between. Fill those gaps and maybe we could all just get along.