I believe that all people are equal and should be treated with the same respect. Ever since I was a toddler in preschool my parents would lecture me each day about how I should treat others the way I would want to be treated. On the first day of second grade I remember my teacher explaining to us that everyone is the same on the inside, therefore we shouldn't judge them on the way they dress, the way they talk, or the way they look. During middle school there were several times where our principal would have long lectures about being nice to others and treating everyone with the same respect because we are all equal. We are all equal... This is what I have believed in for so many years.
For many years now I have been trying to my best ability to treat people equally. I do this because I have always been told to treat people equally, but lately I have been finding it harder to do so. I have noticed that the main people, my "role models", that have been telling me to treat people equally since I was little are the ones that do not go by that. My parents are a prime example of this. They tell me to treat people equally, but yet I'm onlt allowed to date certain people. For example, I'm not allowed to date out of my race. Now how is that treating people equally? It's not, its considering them below me or different from me just because of race.
Another example of people that say to treat people equally but do not, is our government. For years we have been trying, as a country, to get the world where everyone is equal. Where there is no person that is below another. For example, the whole reason why the United States is what it is now is because we the people were tired of having to follow the orders of a king. We wanted to be free. we wanted to be treated equal.
Now think back to the civil war. What was the cause of it? The cause of the civil war was the freeing of slaves. Our presidet at the time, Abraham Lincoln, wanted slaves to have the same oppurtunities as white men and women. He wanted our country to become one, he wanted everyone to have equal oppurtunities.
Let's think to when the women of America fought for ther right to vote and to have more rights. The women back then were not offered the same oppurtunities as men . They were not allowed to vote, they were not allowed the same jobs as men, and they were not given the same respect that men got. Women fought for many years before they finally succeded and began to get the same respect as men. Men and women were finally equal.
So as for as I can remember we have been trying to get the world where everyone is treated the same. It has taken many years to get where we are right now, but we're still not quite at the point where everyone is equal. But I believe, just like many others have in the past, that one day we will get there. One day there will be no looking down on others, no treating others like they're nothing, and no excluding people because they are not like you. One day... everyone will be equal.
