How Does America Still Correlate With Our Founding Fathers Vision

Does America today correlate with our Founding Fathers vision? The United States has dealt with acts of racism and inequality towards African Americans, Mexicans, and other people of color since our Founding Fathers were here centuries ago. People of color have been tormented and harassed for ages. Even though America has had several problems with equal rights, we still have amendments in place that every citizen should follow, which allows some freedom in the lives of everyone. The Founding Fathers envisioned equality and freedom for everyone, and today is only partially what they wanted for this country. To begin, in the 1870s, Jim Crow Laws were put into place to keep African Americans out of public areas such as parks, restaurants, and even restrooms. The Founding Fathers wanted
“Segregated waiting rooms in bus stations and train stations were required, as well as water fountains, restrooms, building entrances, elevators, cemeteries, even amusement-park cashier windows,” (History.com). The Founding Fathers created the Constitution so everyone is equal in every way, not for people to be segregated. Moreover, although America is not at its best, we still have a list of amendments. As United States citizens, we have freedom of speech, assembly, religion, and several more rights and freedoms. The Constitution has been amended twenty-seven times to make this country a better place for everybody. The Creators of these amendments have had them for centuries, and today we still follow them. They would be delighted to know that these amendments are still intact. The amendments protect our rights and freedoms, and they have to this day so America is how they envisioned it, in that way. Amendments that have been added over the years include giving eighteen-year-olds, women, and any race the right to vote, and also abolishing