Mary Ji, 8East
Complicated
Tea that Burns Poem
Full of traditional customs
Your ancestors left that
Where they experienced phases in life
Discriminated so badly, that your family wasn't important
Where ghosts in Chinatown
Venture your way
Where they reach out for you
Sucking you into their lies about the Chinese
Where a father said that he knows where the magic is
Begins a mystery in life from the old neighborhood
Where there is no direct connection between the people and the other world
Where the old Chinatown determines the life of a ghost
Like the Chinese villages
Homes were protected by magic
Where no evil spirits are allowed to enter
But
Not everywhere is safe
Where the country was wracked with chaos and starvation and social upheaval
That an Opium War started
Turned suddenly away by the lure of gold
That would help ease the disapproval from the spirits of a hundred generations of ancestors and overcome any fear of the unknown
That the Chinese only knew that they were going off into the unknown to make money
Were they just being unfair, leaving the women alone in China?
Might not even know if they are going to come back
Since the laws were passed banning the Chinese miners altogether
Where the 1879 amendment prohibited any corporation from hiring Chinese at all
Why should they if they aren't giving them enough money
and why should they not hire Chinese when they work hard for low wages
They aren't even replying to the Chinese strict
Why should they work if they aren't making enough money to survive?
Would they leave and not ever return again?
Where the 1868 Burlingame Treaty was passed
Promising the Chinese civil rights equal to any other foreign residents
Local laws were passed to prevent Chinese from owning real estate, attending white schools
Fishing and whether commercially or for pleasure
Why must the laws be this strict only towards the Chinese?
Rapidly growing anti-Chinese labor groups
Declared "one effect of a though organization here would be to deter the Chinese from coming, as they think it is unsafe"
Preventing the Chinese from coming because they think it's unsafe
Abusing the Chinese when the whites don't want the Chinese to come back again
Is this behavior towards the Chinese really constitutional?
Immigration for the Chinese was a harsh experience when
Nobody wanted them to even try to stay
Certain types of laws are specifically targeted towards them
Not being able to have certain kinds of jobs
Discrimination between the whites and the Chinese grow rapidly throughout the years
Where they push the other ethnicity out
Making them rule
Where they thought that they have won
But no
Someone might just fight back against the discrimination!
Where the 1868 Burlingame Treaty was passed
Promising the Chinese civil rights equal to any other foreign residents
Local laws were passed to prevent Chinese from owning real estate, attending white schools
Fishing and whether commercially or for pleasure
Why must the laws be this strict only towards the Chinese?
Rapidly growing anti-Chinese labor groups
Declared "one effect of a though organization here would be to deter the Chinese from coming, as they think it is unsafe"
Preventing the Chinese from coming because they think it's unsafe
Abusing the Chinese when the whites don't want the Chinese to come back again
Is this behavior towards the Chinese really constitutional?
Immigration for the Chinese was a harsh experience when
Nobody wanted them to even try to stay
Certain types of laws are specifically targeted towards them
Not being able to have certain kinds of jobs
Discrimination between the whites and the Chinese grow rapidly throughout the years
Where they push the other ethnicity out
Making them rue
Where they thought that they have won
But no
Someone might just fight back against the discrimination!
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