We can call names, pick up sticks, guns, knives, or fists. All of the previous happen, have happened and will continue to happen until we come to a foundational agreement. The prerequisite for such is that we understand each other as like. Within the structure of 'Government', slowly we have tolerated a 'mediator' to make decisions toward 'justice'. We can gloss this structure with nice, appealing words, but foundationally we grant others 'control' over us.
Control is force, force decreases freedom.
This country had its foundation laid upon the understanding that all men are created equal. In a structure that allows 'control' there exists a hierarchy, those with control and the controlled. Where hierarchy exists between men, all men are NOT equal. This is a flaw in the structure of 'government'. This flaw is foundational, and all ideas, thoughts, activity, created upon this foundation will exist for a period of time, equal only to the amount of tolerance granted to it, by those who build and maintain this foundation.