I know today’s blog is supposed to be about wishes. I haven’t lost track of the days I know it’s Wednesday. But what better wish than to live in a world where all of Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream is a reality.
Marching On
Trials and tribulation
Prompted our parents to march for desegregation
Common sense took a vacation
Riots and fires broke out
A King went to Washington to speak out
Has been inherited by the Hip Hop Nation
Many are enslaved in drug rehabs and prison plantations
Picking cotton a distant memory
The truth is bitter and gory
Fools us into telling a different story
Some are bound by ignorance
Because it’s too painful to reminisce
Instead of brains and intellect
We’re praised for the balls we deflect
Stereotypes Civil Rights Marchers fought hard to reject
Inheritors of the dream now embrace and protect
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