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As the nation was forming the government created different branches to separate the power of the government and they allowed people to vote for their representatives but at the beginning only a few percent of people could vote and that percent white men property owners

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We should look back because the way they set up America provides evidence on how in the modern world the racism it´s very present and how even though it changed on how it's presented in a different way.

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When Thomas Jefferson was writing the Declaration of Independence and he stated,¨We hold these truths to be self evident that all men were created equal,¨he contradicted himself because that would include all the slaves that were treated less than human. He didn't even see his own brother as a human just as someone that was there to serve him and their family.

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Key example when writing the declaration of indenpendence thomas jefferson tried to but some so called meaningful words to try and sweeten up the declaration but in all points he enslaved his own family whole time talking about how slavery is bad and everyman should be free

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All these factors produced what we call slavery and racism because back then the whites would abuse the power of what they had over other race and white women would be underthought of into society. When slavery became a thing they took the abuse of power to the next level thinking they were better than any other race.

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In the declaration of Independence, the founding fathers say that all men are equal while there were thousands of slaves in the colonies. All men had the right to “Life,Liberty and the pursuit of happiness” but slaves were never talked about in the declaration. This created a power dynamic by not giving people of African descent the same rights as white people.

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the power that was established If you are of lighter skin you was more important then those of darker skin.

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I would ask then why are blacks more likely to get locked up for no reason or a reason that a white person would be saved from and why are we most likely to end up dead behind the force of a police officer while getting locked up for the same reason as my white friend

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Citizens should look at the founding of this nation today because people have to look back on what the nations ideals were an why they decided to come to the nation.

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the positive ideals that this country was built on is that all men are equal. it say in the Declaration Of Independence "We hold these truths to be self evident that all men created equal"

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The system was built on race, the status of your family and your wealth

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institutional racism is real because the system was built around the idea of keeping slavery in tact. hence why slavery still exist in prisons and jails and why black people and other minorities are constantly being locked up and or killed. the white guys didnt want to directly say that slavery was over because theyd lose their income and they relied on slaves heavy. which caused them to put in petty rules/laws to make it impossible for them to ever be free.

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The founding documents serve to institutionalize these power dynamics because it spoke about freedom and power strictly for WHITE property owning men, but almost every African were enslaved and stripped away of their rights.

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we can connect these by gaining a better understanding of the topic.all of these topic come together because it all helped create the way in which the system is so broken and wrong going against black people. “It’s not broken, it was built to oppress. It was built to control. It was built for profit.  It was built for political gain and power.”- Ava Duvernay. this quote speaks nothing but the truth. the system was in fact never broken it was made this way.

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freedom of religion pilgrims and puritans migrated to america in search of a place that provides the religious freedom they couldn't find in their British govt.

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we as citizens should look at the founding of this nation to understand racism because for centuries nothing has been fixed in racial problems

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The documents serve to institutionalize the power dyamics because it specificly outlining the powers of which  people had but it unfornately didn't account for everyone because the constitution states, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

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the system is built on race and your background of your family. Mainly if you are white in this country you will be given a lot of opportunities

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The system is built on status, race, wealth and power they have over others.

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We should look back at the founding of this nation because that is where racism and racial inequality began. But seeing as we have come so far from that point in time I think we should improve that ways we think.

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we should understand this because how can you try to fix something that you dont understand. if someone tried to tell me this was not real i would simply think of them as uneducated and idiotic to say something like that when they have no idea about it. even if you have not gone through it you can still try to understand it.

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The writing of these documents have institutionalized racism because when they wrote it they purposely left out the part that they have slaves because they know that if they would have put that in they would have had to free the enslaved people.

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We as citizens today should look at the founding of this nation to understand racism and racial inequality today so that we can grasp the fact that inequality was always a thing for blacks and the system was made to dehumanize and corrupt us.

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The system is created on sexism,and racism.They take root because a long time ago Men were in charge ,men did everything,Men had the most rights.White men ,and women was really in charge because they were able to own black people.

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They created social status without any real logic, teaching people that the best way for the country to be ran was by white people.

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The ideals the system are built on is that all men are equal,for the people and by the people, and the country was built on individual rights.

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It's important we understand the history of our nation to see the roots of racism in our country. By pin pointing the beginning of racial inequality in America we can start to break down oppression and shape the country to truly be a land of the free.

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even back then money was the prime influence in this country and

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The systems are built on race and status of relatives before and also and is built like a social pyramid

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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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What would you say to someone who tried to tell you institutional racism is not real????

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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?