One of the most famous documents in American history, the foundational text of our country that proclaimed that all men were created equal, somehow managed to exclude women and Native Americans. Even worse, those who wrote the document preserved the institution of slavery, maintaining that some men and women—those with brown and black skin—were property, while others were property owners. It doesn’t take a critical reading or a leap in logic to realize the true meaning of the document. The founding fathers weren’t saying that all God’s children were created equal; they were saying that
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