Born In the South

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The people, not the law, must decide to change race relations.

Born in the South
By Franklin Price
7/17/2016

Born in the South 
The year was 1945
There have been so many changes
Since I have been alive

The races separated
By the colors of their skin
Inequalities existed
Don't know where I should begin

Separate but not equal
Were the blacks compared to whites
Could not use the same facilities
Did not have those equal rights

Could not dine together
The black men and the white
Or have each as a neighbor
We know now it wasn't right

Went through all those changes
Until we've reached today
Inequality is gone
Or so the politicians say

Rights will not be equal
Until the people say it's so
Cannot mention race primarily
When speaking of the ones we know

Cannot point fingers at the past
When the south owned many slaves
Must cease and desist with all of that
 Or will be separate to our graves

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