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WE MUST DO MOR THAN SAY IT!
When I was young I was told America was great!
It was the country I adored…
I believed America was the greatest country in the world…
I don’t believe that anymore.
Can we call ourselves a great country
this America we’re living in…
when people are discriminated against
because of the the color of their skin?
Can we call ourselves a great country
or have we all been marred
when people are discriminated against
for who they love and who they are?
When you stop to think about it…
Can we call this country great
when some people use their religion
to justify their hate?
Where we forget our servicemen and women…
Where we don’t even make a fuss
or fight to take care of the very people
who fight to take care of us.
When money is more important than the environment,
more important than our oceans and our seas
more important than the animals
more important than the trees?
Where we don’t have health car for everyone.?
Where we don’t welcome everyone to our shore?
Where there is still a huge discrepancy
between those who are rich…and those who are poor?
Where unimaginable numbers have been murdered
as each new killer tries to top it…
Where we say how sorry we are at the family’s loss…
but do nothing at all to stop it.
And now…this latest horror…
our country is inflicting this harm…
by ripping babies and children
from their immigrant mother’s arms…
When I was young I was told America was great.
back then life was such a blur…
And though I knew we had some problems
I truly thought we were….
But I don’t believe that anymore
Although in my heart I hope and pray it…
Now I believe if America is ever to be great
we must to do more than say it.
