They landed in my yard last night. I was scared out of mind. “Greetings earthling” they said but I didn’t reply because I was too scared. “You look like you’ve seen a….” they began to look in a dictionary. “A ghost” one of the green things said. I was a little startled at first until I realized they were harmless.
“We would like to know about your planet” they said and I simply told them “I honestly don’t know much about the world or the planet I live on, but I know a lot about my country at least from my point of view. I can tell you about that.”
“Great! That would be just fine.” The little green things exclaimed.
“Well if you really want to know, I live in the United states of America. Apparently it was founded on July 4, 1776 by a man named Christopher Columbus. That’s what they taught me in school but I have my own beliefs. Here in America we have this documentation called the Declaration of Independence. In this document it states that “All men are created equal.”
(This is a bunch of bologna if you ask me)
To a certain extent is this statement true. I will say that all men are created the same way but they are definitely not treated equally.
For example, there’s this thing called slavery. It started a long time ago where whites owned property along with African Americans, but they made the African Americans work for them. They were deprived of an education, food; clothing and some were even separated from their families to do manual labor. These human beings were sold like they were property and even beaten. Sometimes, to death, and for no reason at all. Eventually, our government passed laws to abolish slavery. Sounds like a good idea right? Well in many ways African Americans were looked at as inferior (meaning less than or lower in rank) to whites; and to this day they still are. However, in the past, they couldn’t get certain jobs because of the color of their skin. They couldn’t eat in certain places or get the same type of education as a white person.
Remember, “All men are created equal.” Does it seem that way?
"Im not sure" replied one of the martians. Well not to me. Racism is a huge factor that has and probably will always determine a person’s place in society. Racism has led to blacks being mistreated all over the world. For instance, this african american boy named Emmett Till was murdered after he was accused of “flirting with a white woman in 1955. Things like this make me say that the country in which I live in is hypocrisy. I didnt know that flirting was a crime. Too bad he wasnt even doing so.
Unfortunately, my green friends, America Isnt what most people think it is. People are treated unfairly all accross the world but i can only speak on what I've witnessed. Overall, America is a huge hipocrisy in which all men arent treated equally.
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