Authors Note:The prompt for this years patriots pen was "What would you say if you could say to the founding fathers"
Dear, Founding Fathers
For starters I would like to thank you for laying the
foundation for a great nation. You did some things right, some things wrong.
You had a wonderful idea but you went wrong. The idea of America is freedom that’s what
everyone wanted from the kingdom and that’s what we got , but America had
slaves that were brought out of their homeland to a country forced to do labor
for free. The slave’s weren’t given any of the freedoms that rich white men got
that’s one mistake. In addition to that women weren’t ether, women weren’t
given a right to vote until 1920 they had no say in public issues and same things
for African American’s only much later in 1960. The second amendment “Right’s
to bear arms” this has been disputed to this day were or not this should be an amendment.
At first anyone could buy a firearm until they were beginning to be mass
produced and crime rates sky rockets because of this. A law was passed that if
you had a felony you couldn’t buy a weapon but this only created more problems,
creating a massive black market that criminals bought guns without the
government knowing. The last thing I’ll rip apart is that “All men shall be created
equally” that was one of the greats told lie’s to people, like a cheesy infomercial. It took 1865 to have slaves released of their
free labor that was mandatory and finally given a shot to live the American dream…
or so they thought. Once again America lied they weren’t slave’s anymore, they
were social outcasts know and had to swim in different pools than white people.
Eat in different restaurants than white people, stay in different hotels and go
to schools with poor education. It took one hundred years later to finally
get it right. Founding fathers you tried to do the right thing. Yes but your
efforts came up short. Now it did take awhile to get America right and still
today people are trying to get it right, but you made this great nation that
started off under the tyranny of a king and is know the leader in freedom.
Thank
You,
Ryan 
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