Humanist Enlightenment's Failure To Address Systemic Oppression

Throughout history, failure to address systemic oppression, has become a prominent and most obvious failure. Some of the things observed about the African slave system and how It became a tool of colonialism, and most importantly, in which ways the Humanist Enlightenment failed to address that systemic oppression. Humanists claimed to give an output of an attitude of thought which gives primary importance and equality to human beings, but failed miserably to do so for the African community.

In the Declaration of Independence, a belief of a decent respect to the opinions of mankind is established through holding the truths that all men are created equal. The people are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that are expressed