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Nikole Hanna Jones “Our Democracy’s Founding Ideals- Values stated in the Declaration of Independence
Please watch the short video about the importance of the Constitution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeWfe2eZ_CI&t=4s
Then please read the article by Nikole Hanna Jones “Our Democracy’s Founding Ideals Were False When They Were Written. Black Americans Have Fought to Make Them True”
Please answer the following questions. Each answer should be at least two paragraphs each that consist of 5-7 sentences.
A) What are the values stated in the Declaration of Independence?
B)In what ways can you see those values working in contemporary U.S. society? In what ways can you see them failing?
C) What examples of hypocrisy in the founding of the U.S. does Hannah-Jones supply?
D)What evidence can you see for how “some might argue that this nation was founded not as a democracy but as a slavocracy”?
