What's this world fighting for

Ideals or something more

Free speech was jeopardized

Now that we're urbanized



Oh, no, I won't show complacency

Speak out, it's about equality

Mandates integrate sex, color, creed

Black, white, embrace what's right

Sometimes hatred isn't the issue



Affirmative action

Obsolete practice

Criminal tactics

Help out no one



Zealots tout their civil rights

Spreading their spite

Hollywood formulates

Tensions escalate



Hope for a brighter day

Illuminate the gray



I realize not all mankind

Choose to be "color blind"

That's the way it should be

In society



Legal litigations

Racist allegations

Defense of prejudice

Shouldn't prove innocence



Better ways of yesterday regretfully are gone

Politically correct is now en vogue to be

Finding out that turnabout isn't fair play

You're free to choose a point of view

But that's the issue