Rhyme on slavery

My heart shudders at the thought of the wickedness of slavery/ grateful for all those who endured it with bravery/ how can we reconcile such a painful point of our past/ the grip of bigotry over our institutions was vast/ it lasted for two and half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was passed by President Lincoln’s Executive Act but sadly after the on its own promises the federal government turned its back/ every former enslaved family was owed a mule and 40 acres/ it was General Sherma’s special Field Order 15, let’s go find the papers/ and enforce the law/ human health and well-being shouldn’t be based on a luck of the draw/ in my vision we’ll effectively and equitably carbon emissions by uprooting the pipeline from school to prison/ end all forms of discrimination by bolstering investments in public education/ when it comes to our nations history we must teach the full series including the application of the laws that makes us examine critical race theory/ once we really understand what justice means we can achieve unity/ in the United States everyone deserves a fair opportunity/ we won’t last long unless we agree to make the world a better place by righting past wrongs…