Written last year for my daughter and (sometimes) co-blogger – it just seemed appropriate to share it for MLK Day:

Love Song for My Daughter When I tell you we have come a long way, baby, please remember I grew up in a world where women had two choices – get married or be pitied; attended school in a city that stoned school buses because the children riding them were the wrong color; came of age in a country that shot its own offspring when they dared to disagree. When I tell you we have come a long way, baby, understand – I am not saying we dine on milk and honey tonight. We are nowhere near the Promised Land. I am not saying that it’s time to lay our burden down and greet our just reward,   nor telling you to be content with sour wine because I had to drink their brackish water. When you tell me there’s injustice and I say look where we were I am not saying we have reached the journey’s end. When you rage against the system and I say look how it’s changed, I am not telling you be satisfied with everything we’ve done. When I tell you we’ve come a long way, baby I am saying we have come so far there is no going back. When they push, push back harder. When they stomp you down, stomp the yard and raise your voices loud. When they light a cross on fire, don’t piss on it to put it out - douse the flames in gasoline and fan them till the world can’t help but see. When I say we’ve come a long way, baby, I am saying we have such a long long way to go, but we have come too far to let them stop us now.

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