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?|||Do you never foul up when you are trying to get it right. Quit being a blooming idiot. The founding fathers strove for a dream just short of Heaven on Earth. You are bitcching because they were men with feet of clay. They shot for the Heavens and damn sure did not shoot themselves in the foot. Instead of putting them down look at their contemporaries and be amazed we got the quality of government we have!|||It can't. That's why those problems have been corrected today. The sad part is that it did take nearly 200 years, but we did it.





No American alive today has ever owned a slave. I certainly hope that no American alive today has ever massacred or stolen land from Native Americans.





And today, all Americans are created equal, and have the same opportunities. What we don't have is a constitutionally guaranteed outcome of our lives. It is what we do with the opportunities that we have as Americans that determine the outcomes of our lives.|||That is a outstanding question. My best guess would be is that when the consitution was written african americans were not considered people and native americans were looked as foreigneres, although we stole this land from the indians. it's amazing how men who founded and ran this country could be so damn stupid|||These ideas are not ideas of today, so if you think about these historical occurrences in the modern sense, you cannot grasp the thinking of these scholars. These men were not wrong about these things, they just believed that this was the best way for the nation (or colonies) to move forward.|||Simple. In Jefferson's time, those groups weren't "men". And social hierarchy did not mean inequality to him.|||You need to read "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding. I think that taught me a lot about human nature. Good question.

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