Freedom
By: Kalia
 

Why did
Thomas Jefferson and other loyal presidents Have slaves?
Why, didn't
We have more than one president, like Abraham Lincoln,
stand up to this?
It was not fair
That whites and blacks were
S.E.P.A.R.A.T.E.D.
It was not fair
That blacks were not paid
To pick cotton in a white man's field.
It was not fair

That blacks were not allowed
To learn how to read or write.
It was not fair
That blacks were to move to the back of the bus
And give up their seat.

It must have been hard when
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
marched on the road
to freedom.
It must have been hard when
Rosa Parks
had to move to the back of the bus
after a hard day.
And it must have been hard when
Harriet Tubman
had to pick cotton and be a maid.
Back then,
Everybody wanted freedom.

Even Harriet Tubman and
Booker T. Washington
even Martin Luther King Jr. 
With civil rights and segregation
Rosa Parks was a role model
when she was told to give up her seat.
Everybody still wants it...
Freedom.

Now changes are everywhere
We have little white girls and black girls
Swinging,
Playing
Together on the playground.
Now changes are everywhere
We have little white boys and black boys
Outside
Playing basketball.
And now
We have all blacks and whites
 going to the same
Schools
Restaurants and
Arenas.

We all have Freedom.