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Asian Dub Foundation
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Colour Line
Lyricist:Amiruddha Das, John Pandit, Steven Savale, Sanjay Tailor, Saidullah Zaman
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
The IMF, the world bank, structural adjustment programmes General agreement on tariffs and trade, gatt Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com 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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