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To: Sherman Logan

It’s historically inaccurate. The line in the Declaration of Independence states “ALL men” were created equal..not all white men. By putting the phrase “all men” in the Dec, it thereby asserted the U.S. was a country not to be restricted to one particular ethnicity. The fact that many early Americans were slave-holders, or held racist opinions about, or were completely unaware of other types of humans does not change the essential meaning of the document.


21 posted on 04/03/2013 1:53:19 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: driftless2

Depends on what the definition of ‘men’ constituted back then.

;^)


22 posted on 04/03/2013 3:22:15 PM PDT by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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