4th of July really means?

We come to that day when independence is recognized
a day when a Continental Congress identified thirteen colonies as distinct from Great Britain  
 
No need to denigrate the men  
some of whom held slaves  
for there was that promise  
of that freedom which is never free  
 
Oh that day when on the fifty anniversary  
of the Declaration of Independence  
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson  
took their last breaths  
 
A lawyer from New England whose son  
used his legal acumen to advance the cause of freedom for those  
on the Amistad  
 
While Jefferson to his dying day was locked to the economic benefits of slavery  
most of his slaves still in chains  
capitalism in full effect  
 
“Upload, the master race idea, genetically disposed to rule the world”  
 
The disparities between ethnicities reflected in the opinion samples of  
black and white folk about the value  
of sending people to outer space  
 
Schools segregated by where people live  
the lack of access to health care  
access to business capital  
and yes even to this day racism  
in sports leadership  
 
“Still at the back of line when it comes to being ahead”
 
Fighting to fulfill that promise  
one step forward two steps back  
dying younger, and incarcerated more  
highest unemployment of any group  
 
Now the ground that was thought  
to show the smallest gap is now  
being widened by naked partisan  
games to purge voters  
 
Calling call to those grounded  
by a vision of fifty states with tied  
not only by a Bill of Rights but  
by a Declaration of Universal Rights  
 
Happy 4th of July y’all  
may we someday have a union  
that goes beyond name only  
 
“Take nothing less than the supreme best  
do not obey rumors people play  
‘cause you can pass the test”