The Emancipation Proclamation which was issued in 1863 should have been issued in 1775, the year before the Declaration of Independence. Then the Declaration would have been less hypocritical when it complained about British tyranny but did not end our tyranny of black slaves and Native Americans which was much worse than the tyranny of the British.
The eloquent Gettysburg Address should have ended differently; instead of "a government of the people, by the people, and for the people", to be true it should have read "a government of the rich, white, male elite, by the rich, white, male elite, and for the rich, white, male elite."
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