Land of free
How can I express how I feel:
When I am constantly having to deal with this unjust,unfair,unequal land of the free:
Yet we are told to be you, be brave be all you can be:
You put us down,treat us bad and you profile me: when caught you oppose racism diametrically:
What did we do? You chose us we didn't choose you! Racism is still prevalent in times today:
No matter how athletic and how proper you sound:
To the racist you are as significant as a root from under the ground:
Even though the root brings life to a beautiful flower:
One of ours is being taken by the hour:
Why cant we ride and enjoy the night?
Without being subjected to your red,white and blue lights:
The same colors that represent the land of the free:
Red is our blood and blue is our pain the white signifies the color that made us hang:
Your hatred for us has never changed:
Youve just evolved from speaking it freely:
To incorporating it in your job selection,sentencing and education:
We are a work in progress some things will change: until we will fight,protest and educate our children about your ways:
Teach them to respect and love who they are and desire to be:
Teach them what it truly means to live in a land of the free.
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