Our America

 

America? The Home of the Brave? The Land of the Free? Not my AmericaNot the America that fought for FreedomNot the America that ended slaveryNot the America that banished inequalityAmerica?That lynched you because your complexion was the wrong shadeThat treats Americans as if they were illegal aliens or refugeesAmericaMy AmericaThat Killed an innocent child with milk still on his breathDreams never realizedA life now forgottenYou may forgetBut I will always rememberIt happened hereIn The land of the Freeand the Home of the BraveIs this my America?NoThis is our America 

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