War Against Hatred

Land of the free and home of the brave

We claim to be 

We may be free from chains but we are not yet free

from Hatred 

How is it freedom if people are afraid to be who they really are?

How is it brave to criticize someone because you don't have the time to get to know them?

Racism and bigotry destroy the foundation of our country.

Yes there are no more slaves;

no more people in chains being owned by other people.

But how many people are slaves to society?

How many homosexuals act straight because society will accept a straight man over a homosexual?

How many Muslims are ashamed and embarrassed to wear their hijabs because society doesn't accept their culture?

So many people are still chained by societal standards.

How is that freedom?

We claim to be the land where everyone comes to be free

Yet when they arrive we do everything in our power to enslave them to the way we Demand they act.

As a nation, we have come very far

But we still have further to go

Before we are truly free.