Pat Hynes
“When the Founding Fathers proclaimed that “all men are created equal,” it was preceded by “we hold these truths to be self-evident.” If they were truths and self-evident, why were the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence from the moneyed class exclusively (physicians, lawyers, merchants, and plantations owners); many were slave-holders. Deepening the deception, the signers considered women inferior to men intellectually, emotionally, physically and spiritually; consequently, they meant privileged white men only when they wrote “all men are created equal.”
Did they sign the Declaration on Independence with the intention of taking on the arduous effort of establishing an equal society for all?
My answer is a solid no. After all, this country has had to fight its own civil war to end slavery nearly a century after the Declaration of Independence and to undergo unceasing civil rights struggles for people of color and for women throughout its 250-year history, with no end in sight…”