American Dream Equality
Rachael Guster
Eng101-36
10-20-2010 Equality, the American dream
What is the American dream? The American dream to me is about equality. People have been wanting, fighting to be equal for many years, and it has turned into a game of tug-of-war. Today, people have made progress in treating other people equally, but we have to look at the timeline of what we went through to get to where we are today.
In the 1770’s, when there were only thirteen colonies to America, people were not treated equally, because they did not have rights. The people were ruled by King George the third and were still considered a part of England. The king was a tyrant, refusing to listen to his people, taking away their simplest …show more content…
The people are finally being heard, treated like people, only to become hypocrites for over two hundred years. This naturally slowed our progress to having equality, with an issue called racism. Colonists from America brought people of color from Africa to the states and in return took all their rights, their freewill. It is ironic: the colonists took the African Americans rights after bringing them to America, which was the same thing, the king did to the colonists when they moved to America; history always has a way of repeating …show more content…
The African Americans slaves were ripped from their families, and sold to white people to do their labor. The slaveholders would beat the African American slaves with whips like animals, and treated them with no means of humanity. A man named David Walker who was an early black abolitionist, born a free African American, wrote an article called Walker’s Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America. He talked about how African American slaves were treated far worse than slaves of earlier times, how God created every man equal, he rebuttal this claim in his writing saying,” Are we men? Did our creator make us to be slaves to dust and ashes like ourselves? Are they not dying worms as well as we?” Walker said this to empower African American slaves to stand up for themselves, to see their selves as equals to everyone, no matter what color. We have made progress, dealing with Racism; however, we are still fighting the issue
Eng101-36
10-20-2010 Equality, the American dream
What is the American dream? The American dream to me is about equality. People have been wanting, fighting to be equal for many years, and it has turned into a game of tug-of-war. Today, people have made progress in treating other people equally, but we have to look at the timeline of what we went through to get to where we are today.
In the 1770’s, when there were only thirteen colonies to America, people were not treated equally, because they did not have rights. The people were ruled by King George the third and were still considered a part of England. The king was a tyrant, refusing to listen to his people, taking away their simplest …show more content…
The people are finally being heard, treated like people, only to become hypocrites for over two hundred years. This naturally slowed our progress to having equality, with an issue called racism. Colonists from America brought people of color from Africa to the states and in return took all their rights, their freewill. It is ironic: the colonists took the African Americans rights after bringing them to America, which was the same thing, the king did to the colonists when they moved to America; history always has a way of repeating …show more content…
The African Americans slaves were ripped from their families, and sold to white people to do their labor. The slaveholders would beat the African American slaves with whips like animals, and treated them with no means of humanity. A man named David Walker who was an early black abolitionist, born a free African American, wrote an article called Walker’s Appeal, in Four Articles; Together with a preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America. He talked about how African American slaves were treated far worse than slaves of earlier times, how God created every man equal, he rebuttal this claim in his writing saying,” Are we men? Did our creator make us to be slaves to dust and ashes like ourselves? Are they not dying worms as well as we?” Walker said this to empower African American slaves to stand up for themselves, to see their selves as equals to everyone, no matter what color. We have made progress, dealing with Racism; however, we are still fighting the issue