i'm here

because a union job
lifted my family out

of poverty

and into the middle
class my grandfather

left the jim crow south for

detroit joined the
uaw and got a job on

the assembly lines
during world war

ii that union job
enabled him to support

his family

raise my mom and
send her to fisk

university

that's the american
dream together we

work

together we rise
joe biden and kamala

harris know the dignity of

all working americans
they know the

urgency

and the demand of
our dream but working

people

are under attack
the wealth gap grows

our middle class

shrinks and poverty persists

last week donald
trump said and i quote

our economy is doing good

while 40 million
americans are at risk

of losing their homes

30 million aren't
getting enough to eat

and 5.4

million people have
lost their health

care because of this crisis

he has failed us

but still i believe in the dream

of our ancestors
together with joe and

kamala in the white house

we'll raise the
minimum wage so no one

who works a full-time

job in america lives
in poverty together

we'll fight for
those who keep us

healthy

who keep us safe who
teach our children

will stand for those
who cook and serve

and clean who

plant and harvest who pack and

always those who
deliver whose hands

are thick with calluses like my

granddads were

who lifted me high
who held mine when i

was a boy

if he was alive joe

and kamala he would be so

proud of you and he tell us

take another by the
hand and another and

let's get to work

this dream ain't free
you gotta work for

it

so like his generation
up and out of the

depression

let's now work
together and stand

together and america

together we will rise