Change. Really?

We can eat in the front
Sit side-by-side
Share drinks and
Public transportation
With ease.

Thank God for Soujourner,
Thank Him for Nat Turner,
Martin Luther King,
Brother Shabazz, W.E.B DuBois,
Booker T. Washington, and all of those
That paved the way.

What great tragedies
Were underwent, so that we could have
The things we have today.

But these changes aren't really so.
My brothers are being killed off by the dozen.
My sisters are constantly being stripped of their worth.
Police are still shooting un-armed suspects
in hot pursuit.
The schools and education system is failing.

Where is this change?
Does it even matter where we eat
drink, and travel any more?
What is so different between then and now.
Yeah, times have changed.
But have they really?