It ends tonight

It ends tonight Our battle to be equals ends tonight How can we look our children in the eyes and tell them that they live in the land of equal opportunity when in fact they do not How can we hate each other when we are the same? How can we kill each other when we bleed the same? How can we torture each other when we suffer the same? Why do we make a world already cruel and evil even worse? This ends tonight Tonight it shall be still And tomorrow we shall wake to see each other as equals There will be no judging by color There will be no hate crimes We will sit together Laugh together Cry together Grow together As it should be We will not longer scorn each other We will flourish as people As Americans