BLACK,AMIDST THE RED,WHITE AND BLUE./

CENTURIES  AFTER THE SLAVE SHIPS 1600'S./SYMBOL  OF FREEDOM,  LIBERTY,AMERICAN FLAG,THE RED,WHITE AND BLUE..LIBERTY,FREEDOM  NOT FOR THOSE WITH A  DARKER SKIN HUE./OUR ANCESTORS CAPTIVE AFRICANS,SLAVED ON SLAVE SHIPS,FORCED TO A STRANGE LAND...CHAINED,SHACKLED,AT SLAVE AUTIONS,SOLD,BOUGHT,NAKED AS THEY STAND.....UPON SLAVE PLANTATIONS,BENEATH THE SUN AND MOON LIGHT GLEAM..FOR HUMANITY,FREEDOM FROM BONDAGE THEY DID  HOPE,PRAY AND DREAM..,DESPITE PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN FREEING THE SLAVES AND EMANCIPATION  PROCLAMATION.BLACK PEOPLE STILL OPPRESSED,WITH NO EQUALITY IN THIS NATION...BLACK  SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL CONTRIBUTIONS,INVENTIONS  HELPING BUILD THIS GREAT LAND...PROTECTING THIS COUNTRY,BLACK SOLDIERS IN WARS,KILLED ON  FORIEGN SAND.//BACK OF THE BUS,COLORED SECTION,WHITE ONLY,SCHOOL SEGREGATION..LYNCHING,HANGING,CHURCH BOMBINGS,FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY,SO MUCH  SACRIFICE  IN THIS NATION///.PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG,SCHOOL  CHILDREN SPEAK WITH  A PATRIOTIC REFRAIN..BLACK CHILDREN IN  POOR COMUNITIES,POVERTY,VIOLENCE HAVE THEM  CONFINED IN DETAIN....WITH LIBERTY  AND JUSTICE FOR ALL,,WILL WHITE MEN MINDS CONTAIN..OR WILL  POVERTY, UN EQUALITY,UN LIBERTY AND UN JUSTICE IN THIS  COUNTRY  REMAIN.///.