Take down that flag

The flag of traitors

It’s not your heritage

It’s just your hate

Take down that flag

Remove that statue

Take it to a museum

It needs some context

Take down that flag

No more celebrations

Of men who brutalized

Other humans, other nations

Take down that flag

Unite our country

Respect our words

Respect our founding

All under the sun created equal

Endowed with inalienable rights

All basking in liberty and justice

Take down the flag of our nights

July 4, 2020


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