American Dream Hypocrisy

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Murr, Dominic Ms. Newton 2/20/24. The Hypocrisy of “The American Dream” Perspectives about the American Dream vary based on one’s experiences. Our perspective is how different our nation is compared to how we read about the way Thomas Jefferson intended the Declaration of Independence to look and sound, as well as how hypocritical Jefferson was when writing the Declaration’s outlines, and imagining this country’s future. The American Dream is double-sided, and does not do as those who wrote it declare. Leaving the past and current United States to live in unorganized shades of gray, where, even now, people are still discriminated against, and treated unfairly. The American Dream is hypocritical, and I believe this to be true. Because in the beginning, out of the original 13 colonies, 12 of them were slave states. But how exactly would that be a reflection of the liberty in the American Dream’s prized …show more content…

In the article, American Dream, it states, “Frederick Douglass gave his famous speech with fiery passion to a majorly white crowd. He expressed, “his agreement with the American Dream’s ideals,” but also his anger that the aforementioned freedom and equality did not apply to those forced under slavery.” To put it in more simple terms, slavery was still happening all those years ago, even when it was a modern society. Hypocrisy is in the Declaration of Independence’s most famous sentence: “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.” A prime example of this was out of the original 13 colonies, 12 of them were slave states, and women were not given as many rights as men. Originally, in the Declaration of Independence, it claims that, “All men are created equal with the right to ‘Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.’” Women and minority groups called the Declaration of Independence out, stating that the U.S. did not deliver on

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