You Too Can Be Jesse Jackson: Immigration Rights

Jesse doesn’t like Arizona’s new immigration policy. It’s time for action. Say the following rhymes in your most indignant, civil rights activist, Jesse voice.

Jesse on Arizona’s Immigration Law

Arizona has picked a new fight.
They want to question those who are non-white,
and violate their civil rights.
Immigration policy? Not quite.
There’s no way to ask for papers that would seem polite,
that wouldn’t invite,
incite,
or ignite
some sort of fight.
Simply put, it’s blight,
it’s a slight,
one only hopes their Governor will see the light.

Looking at people and guessing whether they have papers
seems like some sort of movie caper
conceived by someone inhaling crack pipe vapors.

Perhaps Mexicans should make it known,
or insist that in the schools it should be shown,
that when the deer and the antelopes roamed
Mexicans and Natives called Arizona home
while living in a desert dry as a bone
Waaay before there was a Tombstone.

Before there was a Flagstaff
Latinos had more than half.

Spanish was spoken on Winslow’s famous corner
and before spas in Sedona, natives were sweating in earthen saunas.
Don’t believe me? Ask Warner.
He was there.

This policy event
is designed to prevent,
torment,
those with accents,
who do the jobs we lament,
to provide things on which our money is spent.

That’s good.
I’ll give myself a high five.
Keep hope alive.

Fuzzy Wuzzy wuz a bear.
Arizona’s policy isn’t fair.
Demanding papers is designed to scare
those who really don’t belong there.

Police will find a way to detain and delay
much to brown folks dismay
fine folks born here in the USA.
The problem with the law is that it’s not black and white, but mostly gray.
If you thought November’s elections meant a brand new day

I wrote these lines
in the form of rhymes
to show we’re going backwards in time.

You did it. You kept hope alive.