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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