Asian Dub Foundation - Colour Line Feat. Ambalavaner Sivanandan Lyrics
today, the colour line/is the power line/is the poverty lineRacism and imperialism work in tandemAnd poverty is their handmaidenThose who are poor and powerless to break out of their povertyAre also those who by and large are non-white, non-western, third worldPoverty and powerlessness are interwined in colour, in raceDiscrimination and exploitation feed into each other todayUnder global capitalism...We are back to primitive accumulation - plunder on a world scaleOnly this time, the pillage is accompanied by aid, sustained by expertAdvice and underpinned by programmes and policies that perpetuate dependencyThe imf, the world bank, structural adjustment programmesGeneral agreement on tariffs and trade - gatt,Are just a few of the organisations, schemes, projectsWhich under the guise of developing the third world, plunder it.Trade agreements and commodity price-fixing, patents andIntellectual property rightsThey lock them into paralytic dependencyThere's no such thing as illegal immigrants, only illegalGovernments...Black is not just the colour of our skinsIt's the colour of our politics...There's no such thing as illegal immigrants, only illegalGovernments...Today, the colour line/is the power line/is the poverty line
