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Thematic Essay: Equality Throughout American history, people of all races, cultures, and religion etc, have been discriminated against, and denied the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The African Americans are one group that has been denied those rights for ages. The African Americans have been enslaved for years and years. They were dragged in the slave trade, beaten, sold as property, separated from family, culture, and relocated to different places where …

…pursuit of happiness. Today, social inequality still exists, but is not tolerated, in respect to all ethnic groups. African Americans today, are no longer faced with any direct approach to being restricted to certain locations, jobs, education level etc. However, discrimination and racism toward them still is an underlying problem often found in many places, which will always exist no matter how much equality is attained, due to the broad variety of people and ideas.