Unified Rememberance
We came from across the ocean to a world we found you were here before us this was your home through our weapons disease and our god we changed you or killed you we failed to see you we still fail to see you blinded by Manifest Destiny dreaming of empire We fought and won our freedom a freedom we denied those here before us denied those we ’ d enslaved We put you on reservations slaughtered more of you than we can number history slanted and White-washed your stories ~~~~~~~~ We Stole you from across the ocean many died you didn ’ t have our skin color economically an enslaved workforce is better we beat you, took away your names stripped you of your cultures your very identities With our laws we took away your humanity the blue and gray went to war what did you get? freedom? history slanted and White-washed your stories ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We put you in camps making you an imagi...