"It took a brutally-fought civil war roughly 90 years after the Declaration of Independence's principle that all men were created equal to abolish slavery. It took a civil rights movement roughly 190 years after that stated principle to bring "all men are created equal" to reality."

Men of color =.  No, that reality does not exist in this universe, and certainly not in the 21st century.  For the forth time in thirty two years the Southern Baptist Church had to pass a "statement of unity declaring racism and bigotry wrong".  The First Baptist Church, of which Jimmy Carter was a member, refused blacks.  Conservative Republicans were willing to trash Barack Obama, and have suspended all moral and ethical standards for his successor.  Blacks are still struggling in white-dominated political systems to secure their rights.  Whites in the deep south have successfully neutralized the black vote.  So many of us use the "n" word, apologize, and think all is well again.  Equality has no life.