The United States is home to the belief that all men are created equally. I too share this belief, but unfortunately I am of the opinion that our government has lost sight of its goals. I would like to explain my theory on why at this time, the government is failing to supply us with equality. Equality has become by government standards, a lie. Equality entitles everyone with equal social status aswell as equal respect. However, the government has taken this term, and broadened it to no longer mean that all men (and woman) are created equal but that all races are created equal. I am not suggesting that they are not BUT I am saying that it has caused more harm in our nation than good. Our system right now is a waited balance scale, with the extra weight on the minority side of the scale. I agree that life for the minority is at times more difficult than the majority but I also believe that it is caused by that extra weight on the scale. By giving minorities extra privileged, we are making it unfair to citizens of the US as a whole. Tipping this weight to either side causes bad emotions between races. It causes jealousy and frequent complaints of reverse discrimination as well as discrimination. It causes the majority race to tip-toe around the minority and causes the minority to feel more important than the majority. That being said, if some people are feeling more important than others because they gain certain advantages granted by the government, How is does that make you and I equal to everyone else? This also is an issue in a time of economic crisis when a large portion of the united states is in poverty. This is extremely unfair to the individual because there are more majority race college grads out of work than there are minority. In my opinion, if the scale was not weighted, then both races would have equal opportunity to find work. There are admittedly more majority citizens successful in Corporate America, but this is because people in america are constantly being reminded of race by affirmative action. If we removed this system that grants unfairness and move on with the understanding that we as individuals have not oppressed anyone, and that we are not to blame for actions not taken by us as individuals, then there would be no bitterness towards anyone, and we can finally move forward from this point of standstill and social unrest. I believe there was a time when America was bruised by racial inequality, and I believe Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. would be proud to see how far we have come, but less us take the next step towards an equal country, Let us remove these bonds that still separate us, that haunt us and make us seem awkward around each other. In this time of great significance in racial history, lets ponder on our ways of trying to make things right, and examine what next action we should take as a nation to reach Equality. I believe in order for the United States to move further towards its goal of Equality, we need to finally break these our tethers to our race that block us all from being considered what we truly are, Americans.
What unfairness are you talking about? I have never been prevented from succeeding in life because some minority was given more rights than me. Are you talking about welfare recipients or people on food stamps?? You really are equating them as equals? Are you talking about affirmative action? You means the couple minorities they let in to predominantly white institutions? I have literally no clue what you guys are seeing in this world to come to the conclusion that minorities are being favored over the "majority". Just a little anecdotal evidence here... I went to a private college that would allow any African American or Latino person in based on affirmative action if they can afford the school and had just mediocre grades. Amazingly, out of 3,200 students we had 6 African Americans and less than 10 Latinos. 97.6% of the students were white, and the other largest majority were Asian. All wealthy white people, and the school tries as hard as they can to attract minorities who can afford it. This happens at almost every private university in the world. Minorities are so low on the socioeconomic scale that the upper class has to figure out ways to include them. So I'm not sure what you mean by equal. If you mean equal as in poor people fighting over resources, than maybe they get special benefits, but if you are talking about actual wealth and actual resources, minorities have very very little compared to whites.
America has never been based on equality. The beginnings of our Constitution stipulated that you must be a white land owner to vote. However, it is the principle laid down by that document which has morphed into all men are created equal. It was never the original intention of the founders. They basically wrote the Constitution in ways to benefit themselves and many of them became extremely wealthy after the Constitution afforded them new ways to increase profits. That document was as much made with greed as it was some divine principle.
I just think that's untrue. Look up Carter Braxton, Thomas McKean, Francis Lewis, John Hart. The founders couldn't get full equality in their lifetime. Their main focus had to be on freedom from British control. They implemented a document, the Constitution, which allowed future generations to get things done that was impossible in their time. Jefferson in particular saw the writing on the wall. He knew the aristocracy, the gentleman class, was on the way out. The founders were the elite, sure. But they knew things were changing. They risked a lot to try to allow that change, including signing the declaration of independence. If they'd lost the war, they would've all been executed. That's not something someone does out of greed.
You just made my argument right here. Their focus wasn't on equality, it was on other things. Equality, although written into the document, was never the focus. Remember that they weren't even tasked with creating a new document. Their only reason for going to Philedelphia was to improve the Articles of Confederation. They took it upon themselves to rework the system and then basically forced the states through either coercion, bribes, or straight up threats to ratify it.
