Timeline by Who?

While looking through everyone's timelines, i have come to learn a lot about the past of many different social groups. I feel as though it piqued my interest and made me question a lot about our society as a whole and what we aren’t truly learning about everyone's past. Like we stated in class, we AREN'T learning about all of the history like we are meant to believe. Even though we learn a lot about how the United States of America has became such a great country and all, we fail to see people's struggles to get here. Specifically, the people outside the privileged white men that could call themselves. This is our first problem. Who’s the one biasing the history that we tell? There's a simple answer: those with privilege. Many privileged people have been the ones over time that has been preventing people from gaining citizenship in America, yet they make it seem like we’re still the great nation. Let's talk about Asian Americans, for example. We don't really hear about asians in the modern time because it probably not seen as important facts that we need to know. However, the asians has been pushed away from the american dream a large amount of times in the 1700’s-1800’s. For example, The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 restricted all Chinese immigration to the United States for a period of ten years. Facts like these I haven't seen in my textbooks, at least not yet. or we can think about how in 1913 California  passed laws to prevent aliens ineligible for citizenship from owning land. If that sounds like America trying to be a united country, you must be crazy. This shows citizens preventing other people outside of those ideal white, american men to get anywhere in the United States. People get stripped of their right and have it thought of as being right and just. This is where the idea of hearing one side of the story comes into play again. “We’re a great country”, people say. “We have been through struggle”, those ‘ideal’ citizens say. In my opinion, there are struggles way worse out there that we just can't only find in textbooks. The Mexicans used to own part of west United States. We took that from them and made a sketchy promise to give them citizenship. After those negotiations, America made acts that prohibited them from becoming full-fledged citizens. We just gave the enough of a citizenship to keep them satisfied and prevent retaliation or bad blood. It's the fake sense of freedom and the imaginary style of rights that we have grown so accustomed to to the point that we might be getting tricked. I start to wonder: are we really as free as we’ve been made to think?