In our wallets they're thinkin we got commas Really in back pockets we're carrying deep traumas Hang-tied us, by our own trousers Seen as outsiders, they used to red-line us Time called us "out-whiting the white" scholars Drove a divide between us and our Black brothers You got admitted to dominant white college? Still you ain't valid for most of them white collars Southeast Asian dark cousins Drive down the streets, police radio buzzin Gaslighted to thinkin we made progress Still they killed Christian Hall and said nothin (Shh) Not a model, not a monolith, ay Not a pawn for your politics, nah Learned from Gandhi and Dr King If the system don't bring peace we must abolish it, yea If you only knew Walk a mile in our shoes If you only knew We're not so different from you We're not invisible people I'm sick of people believing that we got privilege And we're passing as white When that's a myth they fabricated to combat civil rights Pit us against the Black and Brown, a means to divide And dehumanize, like "See them chinks? They doing fine!" Just to justify their various slurs Model Minority is not a portrait, it's an Asian caricature To lump us together is parody work Before you call us wealthy Let's talk about our income disparity first They're lying, claiming that we're white-adjacent Then why do racists say "Ching Chong" Slant their eyes at Asians? Bamboo ceiling blocking high positions, higher wages They hired us centuries ago for only migrant labor My guy, they hate us From the Chinese Exclusion Act to the Hart-Cellar Act Where they let us in to be pawns only part of their trap Silence our issues like "It's in the past!" We ain't got no political power or media coverage Where's the privilege in that? If you only knew Walk a mile in our shoes If you only knew We're not so different from you We're not invisible people Model minority Got people ignoring me, me Me and my community And just because some of us found success Does not mean we do not know that we are being oppressed Oppressed... see some of us have been here for generations Others, childrens of immigrants And even others still immigrants themselves We struggle with our own histories of American colonialism Yet we stand by our Black brothers and sisters Because we share the pain, and we say your names Vicha Ratanapakdee, Noel Quintana, Delaina Ashley Yaun Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, and so many others Rest in peace This is not a privilege This is not political We are America And we will never again be invisible Never again be invisible We're not invisible people