Asian Dub Foundation - Colour Line Lyrics

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Today the color line is the power line is the poverty line

Racism and imperialism work in tandem

And poverty is their handmaid

Those who are poor and powerless to break out of their poverty

Are also those who by and large are non-white non-western third world

Poverty and powerlessness are intertwined in color in race

Discrimination and exploitation feed into each other today

Under global capitalism

We are back to primitive accumulation plunder on a world scale

Only this time the pillage is accompanied by aid

Sustained by expert advice and underpinned by programmes

And policies that perpetuate dependency

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The imf the world bank structural adjustment programmes

General agreement on tariffs and trade gatt

Are just a few of the organizations schemes projects

Which under the guise of developing the third world plunder it

Trade agreements and commodity price-fixing

Patents and intellectual property rights

They lock them into paralytic dependency

There is no such thing as illegal immigrants

Only illegal governments

Black is not just the color of our skins

It's this color of our politics

There is no such thing as illegal immigrants

Only illegal governments

Today the color line is the power line is the poverty line

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