"that all man are created equal" ?

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Earlier today I came across an article posted on the Fox News website. The title of the article is, Americans should stop demonizing each other and appreciate our differences. Written by Joe Battaglia. The story was good and told about why his father had come to American. But while reading the article, I came to one paragraph that I do not agree with. Everyone has their viewpoints on this subject, in which many people disagree, including me. Here is the paragraph as written by Joe Battaglia.: That heartfelt yearning is exemplified best in these stirring lines of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Unless you have been living under a rock some were, you know this isn't true for all people. If all men are created equal, the Native Americans would not have been about wiped out and then the rest forced to live on reservations, slavery would not have occurred and those from China would not have been put in camps. I am old enough to have attended school during segregation and desegregation, I remember the era of Jim Crow laws and the civil rights movement. When I was real little our family lived in Government housing in Florida, even thought they were the same type of house, there was a tall fence that divided the white residents from the Black residents. I have witnessed many forms of racism during my lifetime. For example: I had went to a department store and heard a black woman ask the clerk if they took checks, she told the woman no, I thought well maybe I misunderstood what she said, so when I got ready to check out, I asked the same thing. And the clerk told me yes, I walked out of the store thinking, wow, you can accept a check from a white woman, but not a black woman! I paid cash for my items, but I should have just walked out and not bought anything. So when it says in the Declaration of Independence "that all men are created equal" to whom are they talking about?