RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: RACISM
The Exclusion Act
The MAGA movement is nothing new
Its racist roots trace back
To eighteen hundred and eighty-two
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese worked as virtual slaves
On the transcontinental railway
The work was hard, the workers brave
They worked for the right to stay
Twelve hundred workers gave their lives
That the railroad might succeed
That America might grow and thrive
The working force would bleed
From the Exclusion Act to slavery
In a long continuous line
Acts of defiance and bravery
Freed us from our binds
We are a nation of immigration
It is foolish to deny
We rise above our former station
It is the center of our pride
All those who wish to push away
The story of our rise
From our birth to this very day
We have overcome the lies
