[Critique Group 2] Leonard's piece for next Thursday

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Just a reminder that pieces are due Thursday. Below you will find my contribution .



America the Dream

 

They tried to fabricate a dream,

a dream they never deigned to lived,

freedom for every citizen,

equality for everyone --

such an exceptional concept,

something not ready to be born.

 

It might be their future one day.

Perhaps one day, but not today.

They could not offer it to their slaves,

nor to their landless minions.

The women fought for generations

for their evasive equality.

They are still fighting today.

 

We could not abandon those words --

Freedom and equality for all.

It seems to be what we all wanted,

but did not understand what that meant.

 

We tried so hard to realize.

Managed to rescind slavery, 

but it was only a shadow

of what it had promised to be.

Negro peoples were still in bondage 

by poverty, Jim Crow laws, 

and the ‘separate but equal’ words.

 

That never happened.

That could never happen.

But still the dream is a beautiful thing 

worth maintaining and cherishing. 

 

Our founders had a nice dream,

but we cannot look to them

to fulfill a dream that they could not.

Look to the ones who lack it the most.

Look to our peoples of color.

Look to the Jews who still remember.

Look to them to teach what it takes.

They will know when we are succeeding.

 

I pledge to the flag of freedom.

I pledge to the flag of equality.

I pledge to the flag of our dreams.

 

 
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