Love this Country

The history of our land has not always been grand

Since Christopher Columbus wrecked the land

Then called it’s natives, outside of their name

Savages; while genocide became the new game

The ideology of the country is nothing new

It was just white washed and called red, white and blue

Shades that were not rich and white

The wrong ones were pillaged and abused

Slowly the rich are outnumbered by the poor

So they devised differences to even the score

Native and not Black, Oh good you’re Irish not Italian

What kind of Asian and no Puerto Ricans

You can sit with us, cause you’re not like them

Social rankings between colors began to grow

The rich had every advantage, every man could know

Hatred dug their roots deeper into the soil

Any chance to rise up, the plan would be foiled

Tribes wiped out and made to walk deadly trails

Given diseased blankets to make them frail

Collecting up anyone who seemed Asian enough

Let’s blame all of them,

For the San Francisco bubonic plague

We will not help, let them rot away

1830 Indian Removal, Indian Appropriations

Homestead, Dawes Act all initiated

Communities became smaller and harder to unite

Which only appeased a rich man’s life

Men in positions of power found ways to gain more

MSG is from seaweed but not to Dr Robert Ho Man Kwok

Questionable facts from a rich man’s lies

Giving poor straight white men a slightly better life

Oh racism doesn’t exist, it is in your head

Gaslighting you do, let’s burn it all down instead

Blacks, we gave you your freedom what do you want?!

The removal of Black Codes that lay around to taunt

Colorism against your own creates it’s own hue,

While incomplete beauty standards only match a few

Yet they’ll spend more time copying the rest

Creating a privilege to think they were the best

Yet their false privilege weakened them

Because they all got a spurious gold star from them

The unwanted educated themselves to be the cream of crop

And with a million degrees and a stunning smile

Our efforts were worth nothing in comparison by miles

White women benefited from our fight as well

Segregated suffrage rights but they won’t tell

And you can’t teach those who turn their cheeks

To turn a blind eye to the patriarchal lies

To secure their seat to an imaginary social construct

They’ll bend over freely to the corrupt

Secure your seat on the floor next to the a throne

Man made and boosted of human bones

Decades of work to move everyone forward

Because we believe in humanity and community

And not just for the colored

We tried to invite, we tried to be together

Generational hatred grew further and further

Saluting each other in private and now public

Can’t call it what it is, so they’ll say it’s Roman

While comfortably sitting on the wrong side of history

I look at our losses and what we may lose again eventually

My anger grows at how much fake patriots do not love this country

Oh I voted because of this and I voted for that

You willingly voted against your neighbors back

I look at my country and I ask ”What did you do?!”

You voted against your neighbor because they’re not like you

One day there will be no one else left to hate

When they come for you too