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Don't Call Me Your Asian Friend

from Do Your Work by The Michael Character

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Don't call me your "Asian friend" x3
That shit is fucking ignorant

If you don't wanna sound like an asshole
There's a few things you should never say
Like don't fucking ask me WHAT I am or say
"Hey! I know a great Japanese food place!"
I don't need to hear everything you know
About my ancestral homeland so please
Take a fucking ticket, get your ass in line
With all your 'racially tolerant' friends so you can kiss mine

Don't call me your "Asian friend" x3
That shit is fucking ignorant

I met a guy named Pete in the diner
He tried so very, very hard to present
Himself as someone who is comfortable sitting
Next to a non-white person (he said)
"Ohh my Vietnamese coworker took me
Out to a restaurant and I LOVED the catfish!
I like to read about the marches in the sixties
Because, you know, civil rights and all that"

Don't call me your "Asian friend" x3
That shit is fucking ignorant

My race is not some bonus that you get when you like me
That makes it good of you to want to be my friend
If you're proud 'cause there's an Asian name inside your contacts
Then fuck you, you're a fossil, and you don't fucking get it
Having friends that aren't Caucasian doesn't take away
All the racial privileges you benefit from daily
And acceptance of that fact is your primary tool
For dismantling the racism that makes it cool to say... (Asian friend)


Don't call me your "Asian friend" x3
That shit is fucking ignorant 'cause
I write songs and I'm a teacher
I support local artists and
I've got a lot of traits that matter
More than the region of my great, great grandparents' origin

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from Do Your Work, released April 3, 2015
Shout out to Pete. You bummed me out hard that morning. Also shoutout to the dude in Central Square who told me he saved my "people." You didn't.

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It's political music, whatever. Based in Boston, MA. Absolutely willing to drive very far to play for you and five of your vaguely alternative friends in your combination kitchen/laundry room. Hit me up. I'm fully serious.

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