Reply #7: "... and yet, all people weren't treated equally for a century." [View All]

"We declared all people equal, and yet, all people weren't treated equally for a century."

Obviously Bush (or his verbal coach) can't count and/or doesn't know basic U.S. history. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal...." was in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, which was written in 1776. Anyone who thinks people were being treated equally by 1876 is just whacked. Women couldn't vote, for one, and blacks were just figuring out that they weren't getting their 40 acres and a mule and dodging the KKK when the sun went down. Native Americans? Well they were still getting shot and herded into small and smaller reservations.