We, too, Are American

I don't care that people are triggered that they suddenly discovered Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing, also known as the Black national anthem.  I don't care that some people don't stand while it was being played.  I don't care that they are changing the narrative making it seem like we are the ones who push division. None of this is new.  

History has proven what empowered and emboldened people will do when they have leeway.  Their ignorance and hate are on full display and they gaslight and whitewash with no consequence. I care that they will remove the song and the history that surrounds it from history books and ban it from being played and/or sung.  I care that once that happens there will be no stopping them in their deliberate plot to erase our history and contributions to this land. 

We too are American, and we too deserve ours. Had it not been for separate but equal, which was never equal, we would not have needed two anthems. But guess what, these people don't even know about separate but equal because they didn't have to know it. They just benefit from living it and don't want it to change.