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Let America be America Again
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Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plai .........
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Langston Hughes
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Kwesi Atta Sakyi
(5/26/2009 11:00:00 AM) |
Lagston Hughes says it all without a megaphone and without frills. What frankness, zeal, candour and deep feeling for the suffering folks whose dreams, hopes, vision and aspirations lay shattered, stolen and destroyed by a few greedy lot! This powerful message rings ever true today than the time it was written! Was he a seer or prophet? Magnificent stuff! Kwesi Atta Sakyi
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Rus Szkodyn
(3/19/2009 6:43:00 PM) |
I truly look at this poem and think to myself that this continues to happen. People are still being discriminated but it appears to be less likely than in the past. The dream that he speaks of is what every American is after, no matter what race, religion or sex. I have seen discrimination first hand, and let me tell you it is something that nobody should go through. The pain that you will feel is something that you wish your children to never feel. As people keep getting educated I hope that they will also see that discrimination is a horrible thing.
It is funny to think that America is known as the melting pot, but really what kind of melting pot discriminates against its own people. Even today it is known that people discriminate against Hispanics. It is something that should be ashamed of not to be proud of. Who cares if they are illegal, a human being is a human being and nobody has the right to look down upon another human being for doing nothing wrong.
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Marvin Purser
(2/14/2009 5:23:00 PM) |
It's gonna happen, Langston. Abe was on top of it. King pushed it. And Obama will
affirm it. The little slave in the balconies of slaveowners churches years ago prayed for it.
Yes! Langston. Yes! Martin. Yes! Obama. Yes! America. Yes! One Family of God. Every man, woman and child, 'Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight! ' With 'no hands, but ours to do His will.' 'jOn earth, as it is in heaven! ' Amen!
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Tynice Owens
(8/30/2008 5:47:00 PM) |
I find his words to still be in the struggles of today. Let America be America Again, ...yes, that is what we all long and strive for every day. These words speak to me in a perfect time, place and year. These words cry out for hope, for a better tomorrow, for an America to be what it once was, is, and still can be. The same as way Obama sees it, it's the same way Langston wrote it.
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Matt Soriano
(12/14/2007 10:34:00 AM) |
to bad your dead i would have loved to talk to you about so much and so little.
but when i'm dead i will then be able to see my itell.
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Chris Oxner
(11/8/2007 11:19:00 AM) |
As it still is in America, his yearning then is his yearning now. Timeless. But maybe there will be a future time when people read this beautiful poem and see it communicating a yearning that has become a relic of an bygone era.
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Jennifer Jones
(3/3/2006 3:41:00 PM) |
This poem speaks the truth in a song of words.It gives you insight to how his life was during his life. I love this poem!
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