Tuesday, December 6, 2011

"all men are created equal" ? slavery? social hierarchy? Mistreatment of Native Americans?

How can Jefferson's statement that "all men are created equal" be reconciled with the reality of slavery, social hierarchy, and the mistreatment of Native Americans?|||Jefferson was one of the richest and brightest slave owners in America. He was an elite. When he wrote the constitution he purposely wrote it in a way that people can own slaves. ITS IN THE 1ST AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION!





"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."





Key word "Congress" but the "States" could. ha see there's where the wordplay comes in. Post civil war changed all of that. Lesser states right and more Federal rights.|||When Jefferson said that, it meant all White Protestant heterosexual men who are landowners are created equal. 200+ years later, we have evolved. We are getting closer to the ideal of equality.|||Someone isn't doing their own homework!|||they never did say they were gonna enforce anything to back up that theory, the world is a hypocrite, one day the world will be at piece, and everyone will truly, be equal!|||It can't. But bear in mind that this statement was (and is) a general social, moral, and ethical principle. The instances you cite are specific violations of that principle.





They were (and are) lamentable, but they do not interfere with the message itself.





Violation of a principle does not negate the validity of the principle itself. Wrongdoing does not disprove the principles of rightness.





Injustice does not invalidate the principles of justice.|||Not only will the world never be at peace it will be its or simply humanity's end. Anything can trigger hatred. To many people, no jobs, people that don't speak your language, shortage of recourse's in the near future. Things will only get worse. "for humanity"|||Many of the signers of the Declaration were slave owners . What you need to understand , is that to defy the King of England at that time was revolutionary and courageous . Some white people opposed racism in 1776 , but many saw slavery as the normal order of things -

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