Freedoms are fragile.
Slavery ends and voting rights are enacted,
but people of color are subjected to
voter suppression, mass incarceration,
and shootings by police.
Freedoms are fragile.
Women win the vote,
become judges, governors, Senators,
but cannot win the White House.
Freedoms are fragile.
Homosexual celebrities and
transsexuals come out,
but gays and transwomen
are tortured and killed,
here and abroad.
Freedoms are fragile.
Marriage equality becomes
the law of the land.
But court clerks and business people
claim their faith gives them
the right to discriminate against us.
Let's get real.
Fragile freedoms must be won
again and again.
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