Segregation...or Integration?
Segregation should never have happened
I wish I could go back and change the way that white people looked at black people
Like they were dogs, or ants beneath our feet
I wish I could undo all the killings that happened because of segregation
Then civil rights came along
But it still didn't change anything
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said blacks and whites are equal, that God created us as equals, and it is true
The white people were the hypocrites, not the black people
Black people are not slaves, they are human
He would have been proud though today
To see that indeed our generation followed through
Some people are still racist
But the laws have been tossed aside, a long time ago
They should have never been in effect in the first place
Segregation was stupid
And it hurt a lot of people, physically and emotionally
Civil rights are just the right way to do things
We are all human
We are not creatures
God doesn't care about the color of our skin
So neither should we.
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