These are indeed among the best written songs!  However, I often think; would a slave or a decenent of a slave feel the same way listening to these words/songs?  They were not the Proud Pilgrims, and definetly not beneficiaries of the 'brotherhood'.

Despite, I still think the songs paint an ideal of a country we would all like to live in.  Therefore, I do understand you getting chocked up over them.