Hidden Agenda

American exceptionalism – driven by miseducation
Abridgment of the truth – ignores sins of our ancestry

Imparted myths, retold lies – Shattered promises and repeated backslides

Systemic ethnocentrism at the nation’s inception
History taught poor claims with nothing to improve
We see the effects so vividly - Ignorance blinded so willfully

Hawaiian stolen kingdom
Trail of forgotten tears
No more white washing the truth
Generations of scars – inequality
Writings chiseled on the wall
We need a changing of the guard
American amnesia
Stalls the progress of society
Remember the Alamo
Columbus’s discovery
Chronicles of conquest
Exploitation – Manifest Destiny
Answers from our past
Find solutions of our time
Re-shape the narrative
So we’re not recalcitrant to change
We have in ourselves the power to change
But to make this change
We have to start with ourselves