Brittany Thomas commentary on Lynn Hunt’s intro.
Good evening, My name is Brittany Thomas and as fore stated in class, besides this course being a requirement, I am taking this class to increase my awareness of women’s rights and human rights as a whole. For as long as I can remember I have been surrounded with strong women in my life. From my grandmothers to godmothers to my own mother I have never doubted that I woman is just as strong if not stronger and capable in every capacity as a man. I take pride in that strength and it is because of that strength I am a first generation college graduate. Breaking so many barriers just within my own life and family it has been impressed upon me by the strength of the women in my family that I continue to pursue my education and take all the opportunities afforded to me. It saddens me to see not just young women but young black women such as myself who are not able or willing to enjoy and reap from a college education. Even my mother at an early age was unable to continue with her studies due to having become the head of her household after the passing of my grandparents. However its is never too late to finish your education. She is now pursing an online business degree and everyday is showing me the strength of a woman is unmeasurable.
In reading the introduction to this book by Lynn Hunt a couple of things really stood out to me. With so many revisions of what is now called the Bill of Rights, it is clear that not everyone who the bill was supposed to include and protect actually included and protected. Many were actually excluded with every revision. Blacks, people without property, foreigners and most of all women were considered not human enough to participate in political decisions as well as to be protected by the Bill of Rights . The founders should have not been able to revise the bill if these groups were not going to include everyone. Which leads into the section about the truths of the bill to be self-evident. To say that everything listed and agreed upon as a human right of men (meaning all people) is self-evident is a very hypocritical statement to make. How can the Bill of Rights claim that it is a universal format and principal for all men while yet showing that it will not be afforded to all but in reality to a few, in particular the white aristocrat, the white male born on American soil, who has slaves and property and so forth. The Bill of Rights has been flawed for a very long time. The only thing self-evident about the Bill of Rights is how unequal it truly is.
