Exemplification Essay: All Men Are Created Equal

A wise man once said we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal. The wise man being Abraham lincoln of course. I like to believe that we as a society are all strong believers of this. Sadly that is far from the truth. It seems that sometimes power gets in the way of doing what is right. I personally have seen this multiple times but I would like to start with someone who has way more power than me. Dontre Hamilton, Eric Garner, John Crawford III, and Michael Brown Jr. You are probably wondering what all of these men have in common, first of all they are all black men but that shouldn’t matter what is important is that they were all unarmed men shot by police officers. You may be wondering why all these men were shot, and the answer is simple power. I believe that all these men were killed because of power and specifically the thought of being powerless. Police officers have a lot of power they
Sometimes I do things to gain power and respect for example I play hockey I just started playing here in san jose, as I recently moved here. Of course when I started playing for my new team my skills weren’t respected as much as i wanted them to be so this made we feel a loss of power. I knew that to gain power I had to show the other players a higher level of skill and knowledge of the game. Luckily for me I didn’t have to kill someone to gain power. All I had to do was work a little hard and perform a little better. This worked as I feel like I am already respected and all I had to do was try a little harder. Unfortunately this isn’t always the case. When I came to the team the other players showed no disrespect at all but I still wanted more power and respect. This is exactly what I think the police officers feel, they are not disrespected in any way they just feel they aren’t respected as much as they are used to. This makes them feel the need to show others how powerful they really