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The role model minority

The role model minority

Hate can rise from any source

It hits hard with no remorse

It comes and goes like rising tides

And leaves few we can confide

We are people just like the rest

Trying twice as hard to be our best

We have culture, history, love, and loss

But we remain trodden on like moss

We came to find a familiar life

But were soon driven out at the start of strife

It only got worse, riots with jeers

Left out entirely and driven to tears

Suspicions turn to envy

Perpetual foreigner not to be

The East has promise, just like the West

Birds migrate for new nests

The second big war drove us out as before

To camps inland, with rights no more

As more wars ended, you took us in

Still hated but trying to fit in

There is more than one Asian, as with a family

As with a people and as with a country

We came and worked, toiled, and learnt

Became worth the money we earnt

Or did we get too good for our own sake?

When we asked, you gave us help fake

Ignored and left to our own devices

Cast out with higher costs and other prices

A model that gives out false reality

Other peoples shamed is a tragedy

Doctors to cure a virus of hate

Students with degrees to stop hate

We are not all wealthy or smart

But we take all insults to heart

They find someone in us to take the blame

For phenomena we never knew came

Hate is a virus

Opinions divide us

Facing hate should not be our fate

But for better it is never too late

Not a chopstick but a dagger in the heart

How bad it came from the start

Respect is what we need

Advice we have to heed

We have feelings that are hurt

We have been under feet like dirt

But we all have voices that know that to say

Stop Asian Hate and save the day

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