Declaration Of Independence Ideals

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Have Americans lived up to the ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence? Equality, rights, liberty, opportunity, and democracy are all of the ideals in the Declaration of Independence but fail to live up to. Tayvon Martin, was a young male African American who was shot by a white male, George Zimmerman. This case sparked nationwide protests and marchings all across the nation and was said to have started it all for the racial debate on equality for all. However, was equality always an issue that nobody talked about? Or was it an issue that everyone knew was a problem but did not bother to speak up until something tragic happened?