Equality in the Land of the Free

         Equality in the Land of the Free

            Throughout the course of American history, equal rights for all have always been a hotly debated topic. Even in today’s day and age, there are many groups that still feel that they are treated unequally. For example, there are women who still believe they receive unequal pay, blacks who are convinced that they are primary targets of our society’s criminal defense system, and many more (Including Natives, Asians, etc.) However, in defense of our founding fathers and the words spoken in the Declaration of Independence, I will try to approach this topic from a different point of view. Our founding fathers had, In their mind, only one concept upon which they based the document, that being, “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Now looking back on this we can easily claim that this statement was in a sense one hypocritical to make, as even within our nation we practiced slavery, and women played very minor roles in our society, with most property and riches belonging to the men. However, in this same sense the Declaration of the independence never specifically took away from women or from blacks. In fact those “minorities” (Quotations as I don’t see women to be a minority as they are fifty percent of the human population) were probably better off in a free America than they were in an America struggling for its independence.

At the end of the day the inequality faced by Women and Blacks, though unfair by all means, are social issues of how the world operated at the time of our countries independence rather than an issue faced only by America.