Mark Charles explains the fundamental design of the founding documents of the United States of America that allows white, landowning men to flourish and maintain power . He examines how the United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence did not recognize all the people as having full human rights. From this understanding, we can clearly see why it has been so difficult to overcome the problems of inequality within the system that was designed to keep white, landowning men in the seat of power and control.
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0:00 - When Did 'We The People' Mean 'All The People?'
0:49 - The Reason The US Constitution Was Written
3:15 - The Need To Create A Common Memory
Transcript:
In his final State of the Union, President Obama was talking about the need in our nation for a new politics and he said, “We the People…our Constitution begins with those three simple words, words we've come to recognize mean ‘all the people’, not just some.”
Now when I heard that, as a native man, I had to stop and ask when? I've read our founding documents, I've studied our history, and I had to question when did we decide as a nation that “we the people” actually means “all the people?”
Literally 30 lines below the statement “all men are created equal,” The Declaration of Independence refers to natives as “merciless Indian savages,” making it very clear the only reason our founding fathers used this inclusive term “all men,” because they had a very narrow definition of who was actually human.
Now, a few years later, our founding fathers wrote another document.
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