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Originally Posted by Frax  Just because we feel all men are created equal doesn't mean we practice it. Slavery went on for almost 100 years after the Declaration of Independence, and thats just one example. Of course, at the time, many felt that africans were not the same race, therefore not 'men' in the definition of the US Constitution/Declaration of Independence. Women couldn't even vote for longer than that, and civil rights for all Americans didn't even start to be really addressed until the 1960s...
Times change, issues change. Human society is no where near the utopia of the ideals put forth in these documents. And, TBQH the documents were written and signed by wealthy white landowners. Their outlook on life was not exactly the same as ours today. |
I hear this every time a decent discussion of human rights and civil liberties pops up. Other than to give us a very brief history lesson and tell us that we have become less hypocritical over time, what is your point?
