Friday, October 26, 2012

Equality - Patriot's Pen


Equality. Equality means everyone is equal. Everyone is the same. But when the founding fathers wrote that in the Constitution, I guess they didn’t clarify enough for people to understand that everyone is equal, not just white men. There should have been no need for an Amendment that says women can vote.  If the founding fathers had figured that out when they first wrote the Constitution, history would be much different. Slavery would never have happened, women would be able to vote and run for president, and who knows what else would happen.
If I could talk to the founding fathers, I wouldn’t waste time.  I would tell them immediately to go fix the Constitution and make it clear that every single human is equal, not just white men. You would think that they would understand that women are what make the country work. They probably would be ignorant and not believe me, but I would make it clear. The first boatloads of people that came over to America were all men. Of the 500 men that came over, 400 of them died. There were several reasons for this, but one is because they didn’t want to work and plant food. They were greedy and just wanted to look for gold. Only when the women and children started coming over was when the ‘all knowing men’ decided to pick up their act and start working to survive.
The founding fathers wouldn’t know it then, of course, but if the Constitution had said that everyone was equal, slavery and the Civil War would never happened. If you look at history, the Civil War was caused because the North didn’t like the fact that the South had slaves. The war lasts for years, and finally was won by the North. So many lives were lost, but if the Constitution said that black people are equal to white people, slavery would have never become a thing, therefore the Civil War would have never been fought. Thousands of lives could have been saved if the founding fathers had just said, ‘Oh yeah, I guess black people and women are equal to white men,”
The Constitution is a big part of our country. It makes the most simple of laws, and we alter it as we need. But there should never have had to be an amendment that said women and black people are equal to white men. There is no point in that. It was a flaw that cost many lives.

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