Separate or equal
When it was started, it was for men. Rich, white, land-owning men. Then it wasfor poor men. Then their white wives. Today, it is for everyone who has ever hadto suffer oppression of any sort. It is for anyone who is willing to work for it. Andsome who don't even give that much. When the United States as we know it wasformed, it was created as a place to be free, not the land of oppression that it becamelater on. In 1776, when the founding fathers, bellies full of the food that thefounding mothers cooked and in the house that they kept tidy, penned the famousdocument known simply as "The Declaration of Independence". It was a messageto their oppressors, the governing body of their mother country, Great Britain. Itsaid, in a simple but eloquent way, that it was over. They wanted a divorce andthey're keeping the house. They were Geniuses and Visionaries. Heroes and Role 200 years later, in a more modern time, amidst the turmoil of the aftermath oftwo devastating wars and in a country that was looking forward to testing its wingsas a complex society, a few more founding fathers sprung up. They may have been200 years late, but the message they brought was timed all too well. Names lik
I see the hypocrisy of the forefathers and I see theblindness of a people who have no right to not understand. He felt, asMalcolm did, that it was their right as an oppressed people and it wasn't such aquestionable idea then as it became 200 years later when Malcolm reiterated it. Andafter he sells them to you, he catches you and sends you to jail for using them" When Malcolm spoke, "He" was working at the grocery store. The nation who once sought freedom from baseless oppression thought tobe ridiculous and unnecessary was now the oppressor of a people with differentbackgrounds who wanted nothing more than their fair share, or in some cases, theirAmerica. " In the1960's in places like Alabama and the Carolinas, these words resounded truer, fromthe streets of black neighborhoods and from the actions of the likes of Dr. He was mowing hislawn across the street. He faced scrutiny as no one before, and quite possibly noone after, had to deal with. The Nation of Islam and the Honorable Elijah Mohommad believed that the African-Americans should be allowed to form their ownsub-country in America, free from the oppression of the America of the time, just asThomas Jefferson had penned in the Declaration of Independence. I hope that I may have shed somelight on the recent past values of our country. His ideals were not any more radical thanthe Declaration of Independence, yet his were not welcomed as warmly as the idealsof the founding fathers. Whocontrols the mass sales of whiskey and wine? It's the white man.
Common topics in this essay:
Declaration Independence,
Harlem It's,
Aryan Malcolm,
,
Role Models,
Jefferson Franklin,
Nation Islam,
King Newton,
Rosa Parks,
African Malcolm,
founding fathers,
declaration independence,
it's white,
nation islam,
1776 founding fathers,
1776 founding,
harlem it's,
malcolm spoke,
created equal,
written 1776,
harlem it's white,
|
Acceptance Essays
