No Liberty and Injustice for All

What is going on today?

Our world is moving backward

Antievolutionary in every way

We encounter social injutice everyday

Look at what is going on outside

Our civilians fear for their lives

The police are threatening them based on racial stereotypes

All of this seems all out of line

Ferguson was not the first time

Social injustice has been occuring in our nation since its creation

A simple fear of race has dwindled down to annihilation

Why have so many kids had to die?

Why do these officers always lie?

Dr. King and Malcolm X gave their lives

So we all could have civil rights

However fifty years later this is still going on

All because of this Michael Brown is gone

The officer who killed him in cold blood hasn't had to pay

It goes against our contistution in every way

Our justice system has taught us to try our best not to show our ethnicity

It is seen with such simplicity

Racism is deeply sewn into our history

It is within our community

Keeping us away from our unity

The pledge of allegiance was a lie

There is no liberty and justice for us all

It only belongs to those who have the lightest of skin 

Those who are the "majority"

Those who try their hardest to keep the "minority" down

So all I have to say is

Rest in peace Michael Brown

Soon your justice will be found.

 

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