Lesson 8 principle 6

All men are created equal

Equality of mankind

-self evident truth

-in treatment (no 2 human beings alike)

-only can be treated alike in 3 ways.

-in the sight of God

-in the law

-in our rights

Jean Jacques Rousseau was wrong

-declared to be equal in every way

Equal rights p.105

-Society only guarantees an opportunity to acquire these things

-Does not guarantee to have these things

Minorities

-Who are they? Depends how it is defined

-Everyone in part of a minority.

-Every ethnic group in America was once a minority.

-America attracts minorities

-freedom

-nearly all rose to 1st class citizens.

Crossing the Culture Gap

-must learn the language.

-become educated.

-be economically independent

-become a social asset

-requires time and patience

-1-4 generations

A Nation of Minorities

-French

-English

-Dutch, Germans, Swedes

-Scots, Irish

-Japanese and Chinese

-shabbily treated

-stayed here

-menial tasks lowly occupations

-educated children

-then came Pearl Harbor

-concentration camps

-Sons went to war - highly decorated! Full assimilation

-Black Minorities

-Greatest handicaps

-Some wondered if they would ever make it across the culture gap.

-higher standard of living here than any other country

-2 philosophies

-Booker T. Washington

-Tucsogee Institute G. W. Carver

-Others – handouts

-Some turned to violence

Story of Elderage Cleaver– Personally known to Presentor

-Leader Black Panthers 1960s (communist)

-100s of cities burned in 1968

-left America for Communist countries; Cuba, ended up in France

-became convinces of God and America

-After 8 years, returned a changed person

p112– True Equality

-Liberty produces Inequality

-Liberty and Virtue Produce true equality - the only lasting equality