Freedom and Equality

These two words are almost synonymous with the name America today, or to be even more specific, the United States of America. This is because of our national pride, we flaunt our spin-doctored heroic past (whilst covering perhaps some of the most dreadful wrongdoings in the world) to the world that today our country was fought because of the longing for freedom and equality, to be relinquished from the grips of British colonial rule.
(some of these wrongdoings are: slavery, the unconstitutional internment of Japanese Americans, its favoritism of European immigrants over Chinese immigrants, etc)
I believe many Americans today take our hard-earned freedom and equality for granted. This is because many of us take many things for granted. We're so used to living luxuriously we forget about how hard freedom and equality is to find in this world, and how much people in certain parts of the world long for it. People under the thumb of dictatorial regimes and territories marked by terror, they crave freedom and equality more than anything else. Maybe if we removed our rights for a day people will start to appreciate them. Almost everyone is too concerned with the material world that we take our most basic of rights for granted.
Most people are ignorant.