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It was formed that people of color were to be treated lower than non people of color.

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(1.7)  the colonists have a choice to make. Are they going to be the country of their ideals, the ideals that they were putting to paper, a country based on the idea that all men were created equal? And if they were going to be that country, then they were going to have to abolish the institution of slavery. Or were they going to be wedded to the institution of slavery because they depended so heavily on the wealth that was being generated from it?

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They said things like all men are created equal but left out slavery because they didn't see black people as people but more so property and when they did address slavery it was in a contradictory way because they condemned it because it was right to do but initially still supported it because it benefited them

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we should look at the founding of this nation to understand racism and racial inequality today because its important to see how it started and use that to move forward and not make the same mistakes

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slavery shifted from non-christian to non-white

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we as citizens should look at the founding of this nation

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The need for free labor for plantations. When the Middle Colonizing,South Colonizing

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We as citizens should look at the founding of the nation to understand racism and racial inequality today because everything thats happening today with rascism, brutality, stereotyping, etc is not new its been happening and the more we read into the past we understand why .

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We as citizens should look at the founding of this nation to understand that Black people will never be superior to white people neither will we ever be treated equally as white people.

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These came together and the leaders created a system to keep white people in power and keep African Americans as slaves

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When the first Africans arrived aboard a Dutch slave ship in 1619, status and belonging in colonial Virginia society depended much more heavily on one’s religion or whether one owned property than it did on skin color or any notion of race.

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When the first Africans arrived aboard a Dutch slave ship in 1619, status and belonging in colonial Virginia society depended much more heavily on one’s religion or whether one owned property than it did on skin color or any notion of race.

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We should look at the founding of the nation to see how the system was meant to see black people fail

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white landowners had the power

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We can connect the dots because they created new laws but never talked about abolishing slavery, They created laws for the purpose of keeping slaves as slaves and so whites could keep their supremacy

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Every man will be created equally ¨Were not allowed to say the word slavery in the draft of the Constitution.¨

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we can connect the dots because The Laws for Mayflower Pilgrims and established the idea´s of self-government and religious freedom in colonies which benefit the whites which was the start of racism . This then established power balances as nations formed . and continuing that The declaration of independence left out slavery because they didn´t want to share power with the colored creating a system that protected slavery and supported color racism .

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We as citizens today should look at the founding of this nation to understand racism and racial inequality, because history repeats itself everyday and we wouldn´t know that was occurring if we were not educated on our history.

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Only white men who owned property could vote.

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every man was created equal   (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, )

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They created a legal system by controlling color people by making them feel as though they can't compare to white people and white people have all the power

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The Declaration of Independence said that all men are created equal however every person who signed off on the declaration owned or came from a family who owned slaves.

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We know that the system is built for white people because blacks had only a little bit of rights and they were slaves the whole time.

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We should look at the founding of this nation to understand racism and racial inequality today because it shows how our system had the advantage of white people and the disadvantage of people of color

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African Americans had limited rights and were mainly enslaved after the institutionalization of slavey

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Questions 2 and 3 are connected because it talks about the power balances and institutionalized power dynamics which are related because the power balances formed through the new nation as slavery.

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1.3
The American system was built on the concept of Otherness.

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They left slavery out the declaration of independence they didnt want people to have the rights they deserve if they talked about slavery more people would have stood up and faught for slavery but they priortized one race over the other and didnt want to share power with colored . ( 1.6)

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They left slavery out the declaration of independence they didnt want people to have the rights they deserve if they talked about slavery more people would have stood up and faught for slavery but they priortized one race over the other and didnt want to share power with colored . ( 1.6)

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-Timara Bullock

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We look at the founding of this nation to understand racial inequality because it helps us understand how america was built at a disadvantage to african american. Showing citizens why the system seems against minorities because it wasn't created for minorities.

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The Mayflower Compact created laws for Mayflower Pilgrims and established the idea of self-government and religious freedom in the colonies.

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5.Why should we as citizens today look at the founding of this nation to understand racism and racial inequality today?

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5.Why should we as citizens today look at the founding of this nation to understand racism and racial inequality today?

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4.How can we connect the dots? How did all these factors come together to create a legal system that protected slavery and created racism?

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4.How can we connect the dots? How did all these factors come together to create a legal system that protected slavery and created racism?

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3.How did the founding documents (Declaration/ Constitution) serve to Institutionalize these power dynamics? Why did they do it?

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3.How did the founding documents (Declaration/ Constitution) serve to Institutionalize these power dynamics? Why did they do it?

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2. What power balances were established as the nation was forming? How were they established?

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2. What power balances were established as the nation was forming? How were they established?

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1. What ideals are the system built on? How did these ideas take take root?

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1. What ideals are the system built on? How did these ideas take take root?