Independence Day Fraud

Although the declaration of independence was made to show the rights of all people, it did not keep the promise of unity. The Americans broke the promise by giving unequal rights to African Americans, Women, and Native Americans.

African Americans have been here since almost the beginning of America. Since then they have been used as slaves and have been worked to death in some cases. Even after the declaration was established, they were not given equal rights as many others have enjoyed.

In his speech, “What to the American Slave Is Your Fourth of July”, Fredrick Douglas points out that African Americans are not worthy to share in Independence day because they have never enjoyed the rights like all the other men. He asks, “What [has he], or those [he] represent, to do with [our] national Independence?” This statement clearly shows that, in history, African American people were not free in the time of our independence day.

Another testimony comes from an African American Immigrant from the poem,” Let America Be America Again”, He was “the Negro bearing slavery’s scars” or the hardships of his people. This poem was intended to show how people were disappointed in America after all their dreams were crushed. It wasn’t what they expected and the African Americans were obviously put to slavery as he states in the poem. The African American race was not considered to be free or were they ever considered to be American till later on. This shows segregation between the people who shares the land we call America.

Women have been mistreated since the very beginning of American history. Their very culture was against them. They were not given equal rights as men. They had live and obey their husband or they became social outcasts. They wanted freedom but they were never considered equal even when writing the declaration.

The men declared that they held their ”truths to be self-evident” and “that all men are created equal…” Now in our times we may think that they mean that all people, men and women were created equal and it was just part of the old English system to use the word “men” as a generalization. But as we see in history it is obviously not true. Elizabeth Cady Stanton shows the fact that women were also struggling to gain freedom in the speech, “The Declaration of Sentiments”.

This speech shows the unfairness of men to women in those times. She points out all the faults and does so in the format of the Declaration in order to show that the declaration was hypocrisy against the nation in which they lived and that they were not getting the rights that they were promised. She was in a way taunting them and showing them that they were indeed not equal, as the Declaration had intended. They became another group left out of the rights in which all humans deserved.

American Indians are the true Americans. They were here far before anyone else and they had their home here. Nowadays if you look around you, chances are that you wont see any of them around you. They were mistreated horribly and strangers also took their land away from them. In the poem “Let America Be America Again”, a depressed American Indian states that, “ I am the red man driven from the land”.

This shows that this is indeed true and that we are to blame. They were not given the right to be American even though they were the original ones. In the essay “ Independence Day Hypocrisy”, by Steven Lendman, he states that, “ The Nation’s Native Indians have the least to celebrate.

Few once remained of the 100 million or so Throughout the Americas and around 18 million in our America. Today [the ones that remain] live in more desperate poverty and despair than any other nation. Their needs are shamelessly unaddressed and virtually ignored.” This shows obvious inequality as we have taken land away from them and we are not even doing anything to help them that helped us in our times of need. There is no less unity than that.

There are many things promised in the constitution and unity of all Americans is one of them. These rights have not been allowed to African Americans, Women, or Native Americans. They have been separated by it and only white males were even considered to be American. The land was never together even after our independence. There was no unity in those times.