"Clouded Democracy"

Clouded Democracy
our stolen heritage,
seen across the sea.

O racial segregation, where are our rights
interacting with whites, their bastions to bar
colleges of custom for our colored citizens.

Denied by color for education in America
sweeping streets, beaten and bruised,
begging water by the forbidden fountain.

Ships sailing a million souls from abroad
sold as slaves standing staring in hope -
Not the fearful slums in the back garden

drunk and drugged, mercilessly crying -
“O God, why you the Savior to die
hanging from a tree like me, swinging

the white folks version of transgressions?"
Our oracle in the sky, a new President
Obama from Africa, his stolen heritage.

The man to stand for the rights of Americans,
free from prejudice to study for a degree,
in a democracy that once depended on color;

who, when and where are you, trying to vote
as a slave from Africa, without an education?
"God be praised for liberation theology salvation."