Freedom Took Time

(poems go here) Superiority surrounds, But they call it a democracy. Revolutionary War fought, For Liberty. But hypocrites Proclaim themselves masters Of others. Look down on their brothers. Their brothers try to fight. For freedom. To be looked at as an equal, In the kingdom. But punishment comes, Hanged by their throats, Gunshots, whips Blood shed, from being choked. So after endless fights, Comes walking Jim Crow. Separate but Equal, Becomes legal. Jim Crow born into Carolina’s Oxford. Sees his father get shot at the age of six. A man who wanted the crooked system to be fixed, A teacher who marched the streets, For his students he would take the beats, Jim Crow kneeled down on his knees, Begging for his father to breathe, But his eyes shut tight for good, And the boy knew he would, Accomplish his father’s dreams. So during his college years, He formed a team, And they boycotted things Such as, To have a seat, on the bus- Where the whites would be, And after a wide spread, Separate But Equal became dead.