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Originally Posted by Mark M
really? How many blacks helped write the Constitution? Any Jews? A few Native Americans in there? How's about Muslims? Any Women?
Don't get me wrong -- the theory our country was founded on is the best ever. But the practice has never matched that ideal -- not in our history, and certainly not in our present.
All we can do is work hard and try to ensure that it does come to fruition in our future.
MM
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I agree the practice doesn't meet the ideal. That's what's so amazing about our founding documents. They had the vision and idealism to write these words and to risk their life to do it. These ideals are still our goals though. Being American is a way of thought it has nothing to do with being Muslim, jewish, black, Indian or a man or a woman. The fact that not all of these people helped write the constitution doesn't matter. Everyone is equal and everyone who has the talent gets a chance to add to the country in their own way. We're the only nation in the world whose even close to meeting these ideals