First Class

     In class, we discussed a section from the Declaration of Independence and David Walkers appeal. In the Declaration of Independence, it states that everyone is entitled to the pursuit of happiness, but the thing is the pursuit of happiness is different for other people, including Americans, Immigrants or even terrorists. So it makes you wonder, when a terrorist attacks, they attack because they believe that what they are doing is "correct", and their form of showing it is "right",  because no one wanted to hear it another way, and they needed to make their point across. And although we take their actions as a terrorist form, they feel that they accomplished their "happiness". So what exactly is an overall "happiness"?
      When we discussed David Walkers appeal to Jefferson, the part that stuck out to me the most was  when it mentioned that "What right then, have we to obey and call any other Master, but Himself? How we could be sosubmissive to a gang of men, whom we cannot tell whether they are as good as ourselves or not, I never could conceive. ". It reminded me of the bible verse in John 8:7, when Jesus was talking to the men who were trying to murder the promiscuous woman in the temple. It says "So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.". Basically, why should African Americans be slaves and the white people their "masters". Your color of skin does not dictate whether you are better or superior then others. Everyone is entitled to human rights, no matter your color of skin.