Camacy Melville - A flashback

Help me! my mind is trapped in the time of African-American History.
How slaves worked hard and were beaten and dreamed of having a life like me.

It's ashame how people now a days waste their time and don't learn when all they have to do is go to school, listen and have cooperation
While the slaves had to sneak just to have a sneak preview of an education

People such as Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King jr. tried to change our future so it would not be like our past.
Martin Luther king had a 'dream' so that we can be 'free at last'
Harriet Tuman cared more about her people than her safety.
She went to slave states and brought the other 300 plus slaves to the northern part of the country.

I'm back to the present and not the history time I was in before
Now that I know my history, I'm bringing back a true African American to 2004!

Camacy Melville

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