A Brighter Day

Years have gone by and still tears seem persist As a whole race of people are hushed by a cracking whip The voice of one man with power challanges this And the reality of slavery is said to no longer exist But are these things really true when the conscious of a man Is being beaten down because equality's not at hand And he's forced to walk alone And tell his kids that race is damned Yet watch them go to seperate schools And live underneath the whiter man But then one day we see hope rise Even though that they were all vastly criticized They chose to stand up for their hopes and their dreams And fight against all the white man's schemes They began to march and leave their marks With Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks They changed the nation so that it could truely be The home of the brave and the land of the free Though today we all know it and while some reminisce We now live in a country with a black president So I guess that the saying holds true to this day That the night is the darkest before the brighter day