Wetback

Sat, 04/01/2017 - 16:51 -- NIckyG

Wetback won't you go back to Mexico
Here you do not belong wetback
Ask me do you not have them in Mexico or what?
Right McKenna?
But I don't think you understand
Won't you open a book and educate yourself
Realize not all 'wetbacks' are Mexican
There's a word culture rich
Los Hombres G and chuchitos
I'm not pesos
I'm quetzales
I'm not rizos
I'm colocha
I'm not Mexican
I'm Chapina
Chapina I say
Tell me to go back to a place I've never been to, I will ask you to board the Mayflower
Call me a thief,
Call me a rapist
How so when I've been working 10 years before you
6 should've been in kinder in the fields, breaking my back
Rapist you say, but wont you ask my owner the color of his skin instead of judging mine
Or how much I was worth
Won't you ask me how many times I've been trafficked
But you won't
Turn around because if you don't see it it doesn't happen
Cover your children's ears so they won't hear
Ignore the beheaded bodies
The 5 years old girls at brothels
The 7 year old boys with PTSD
And all the pleas
Instead, tell me to go back to Mexico
'Wetback'

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Me
My family
My community
My country
Our world

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