If It Were So?
This country we all call home,
where many have laid down their lives in the
name of freedom and justice for all...
Where Pilgrims did land on Plymouth
Rock and declared this land America!.
A place where it was written by the Forefathers that every man is
created equal in the eyes of God.
Where justice is declared to be blind to the law...
Where everyone can have a piece of the American dream
and a plot of land to plant his seeds...
Where everyone is entitled to
vote on Election Day... If this country be so great?
Then why does my color keep my children out
of the same schools as yours? My child dream no dreams of
ever sitting in the White House one day? They only dream of avoiding
the jails or the jobs that don’t pay!
Jay Andrew Anderson-Taylor
Copyright ©1997 Jay Andrew Anderson-Taylor
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