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Nov - 2024
Road to Rwanda---Created Equal
“ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness” . I suspect that you are not going to like this post and are also going to be surprised (shocked). Yesterday in my AP World History class, I read the above beginning to the US Declaration of Independence. I was just hurrying through it, assuming they had heard it many times (and I am SURE they have heard it before in many contexts, but obviously had not stopped to really "hear" it.) I was part way through, when one of the girls asked me to stop. They could see the words written on the overhead.The phrase she was questioning was that we believe "all men are created equal". She asked me to tell them again where this was written? I told them. She said, "Isn't that ironic?" and the whole class burst out laughing. I stopped, absolutely stun