I Have a Dream*
About One Day
When “Walking While Black Is Not a Crime”**
I Have a Dream
About One Country
Where One Shall Not Be Treated
Differently
Because of One’s Skin Color
I Have a Dream
About One Country
Where Every One Is Judged
Fairly and Equally
Before the Law
I Have a Dream
About One Country
Where "Different" Groups Would Rather
Sit Down for Talks
Than Rely on Violence
To Resolve Conflicts
And for “Self Defense”
I Have A Dream
About One Country
That Has No Place for Arms
For the Armed and the Unarmed
Are Like Drivers and Pedestrians
Doesn't the Law say
It’s the Driver, NOT the Pedestrian,
That Is Responsible
For the Harm Done?
Once the Harm Was Done
Once the Harm Was Done
Could It Be Undone?
This Time It Was Trayvon
Next, You Are Gone!
Next, You Are Gone!
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* Dr. Martin Luther King's famous statement
** One statement on a protester's sign against the jury's verdict in the Trayvon Martin case
