Louisiana lawmaker rips Delcaration of Independence Apart

One lawmaker in the United States (US) of Louisiana has ripped into the scared The
Declaration of Independence labeling it racist. Barbara Norton sounded of during a
debate on a bill (HB 1035) requiring students attending public school in the state to
recite a specific portion of The Declaration of Independence daily.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent
of the governed.
According to Norton, For the Declaration of Independence only Caucasians (were)
free.
And for you to bring a bill to require that our children will recite the Declaration of
Independence I think its a little bit unfair, she continued.
Valarie Hodges who sponsored the bill was forced to discard it as Norton found
companion in Pat Smith who too poured cold water on her efforts. It was said during
the debate that the states children should not have to recite words written at a
time when slavery was prevalent, reading the document was used to bar blacks
from voting.
Hodges while hitting back at critics of the bill quoted Human Rights activist Martin
Luther Kings pronouncements with regard to The Declaration of Independence.
This is what Martin Luther King said: When the architects of our great Republic
wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of
Independence, they were signing a promissory note which every American was to
fall heir He said this would guarantee freedom for the rest of our posterity, a
passionate Hodges told the house.
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Second Continental
Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, which proclaimed
that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain,
regarded themselves as (13) newly independent sovereign states, and no longer
under British rule.