Rebecca Juro
True Equality
Posted: 11/28/11 07:33 PM ET
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-juro/true-equality_b_1110914.htmlWe hear the word a lot these days, don't we? Organizations like to tell us they're fighting for it, politicians and activists like to tell us that the passage and enactment of certain laws represents it. Yet, if we take the time to really consider the term "equality" and what it actually means, we begin to understand that true equality, especially in America, is still a relatively rare thing.
First, let's define our term. Merriam-Webster defines the word "equality" as "the quality, fact, or state of being equal." Clearly, for a complete definition of "equality," we also need to define the word "equal." Merriam-Webster's first two definitions of the adjective form of the word seem to provide the most relevant answer for our purposes here:
