Throughout time, oppression in America has been a problem for many different groups of people. Even today, Native Americans, Women, and African Americans are not being shown equal rights everywhere in America. For example, the Native American Pipeline protest, Women not getting equal pay and respect, and the black lives matter/ police brutality movement all have to do with them not being treated the same as the typical white American. To expand on this, the Native American pipeline protest is about Native Americans trying to protect their land and waters from being contaminated and taken away from them right in front of their eyes. Anything they try to do is immediately disregarded or dealt with through physical harm.
Some say that the reason for all these oppressions are, because people follow the Declaration of Independence and that the document does not include equal rights for everyone, however this is not the case. The document states specifically 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." Nowhere in the document does it state that this does not include Women, Native Americans, and African Americans. In fact, the all "men" part refers to mankind not just men.
The main reason however, behind all this is the way people look at the world. People grow up with a social stigma and eventually teach it to their kids and others. This prejudice is being passed down through generations, and still even today the treatment of these other groups of people is not fair. It is time to stop this way of living, and to start treating everyone like equals.
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