damnlyrics.com

Colour Line

Today, the color line is the power line, is the poverty lineRacism and imperialism work in tandem

And poverty is their handmaidThose 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 capitalismWe 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 dependencyThe 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 itTrade agreements and commodity price-fixing

Patents and intellectual property rights

They lock them into paralytic dependencyThere is no such thing as illegal immigrants

Only illegal governmentsBlack is not just the color of our skins

It's this color of our politicsThere is no such thing as illegal immigrants

Only illegal governmentsToday, the color line is the power line, is the poverty line

Enjoy the lyrics !!!