There was day when people lived like they were imprisoned

Sold like pigs on a farm

If you were darker

You worked all day

But you got no pay


And got slashes on your back

Even if you didn’t slack


Then a man came along

Who thought trading people was all wrong

And he changed that when the day was right

Just after a big huge fight

Now that the darker were free

They will live in equality!


But, not exactly

They couldn’t drink out of the same fountain

Probably couldn’t climb the same mountains

If you were light,

Basicly white

Then you could blame YOUR crime on someone darker


America’s Dedication

Is education

But we were separated

Not because you were rich or poor

But because of the color on your skin


A man who initials were MLK

Spoke out by giving speeches that many of us dreamed

Because his education taught him equality,

To never judge a book by it’s cover

Because that’s what his book taught him,

This is what we need to learn

To beat the segregation

In our nation

And we won that!


But we haven’t totally won

You won’t be invited into someone's home

Because of the one thing you will always own

Your race,

Everyone’s race is racing to be perfect

But no one is perfect

It’s hard to be perfect

Nobody's country is perfect


But we,

We are all equal

So stop putting labels on things

That can’t be organized into groups

But at some lunch tables it’s all one color

Not to be changed even when they know your name

When will equality be among us?

When we put our differences behind us

And our goals in front of us.