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Asian Dub Foundation
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Today, the color line is the power line, is the poverty line
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Racism and imperialism work in tandem
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And poverty is their handmaid
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Those who are poor and powerless to break out of their poverty
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Are also those who by and large are non-white, non-western, third world
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Poverty and powerlessness are intertwined in color, in race
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Discrimination and exploitation feed into each other today
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Under global capitalism
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We are back to primitive accumulation, plunder on a world scale
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Only this time, the pillage is accompanied by aid
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Sustained by expert advice and underpinned by programmes
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And policies that perpetuate dependency
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The IMF, the world bank, structural adjustment programmes
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General agreement on tariffs and trade, gatt
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Are just a few of the organizations, schemes, projects
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Which under the guise of developing the third world, plunder it
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Trade agreements and commodity price-fixing
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Patents and intellectual property rights
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They lock them into paralytic dependency
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There is no such thing as illegal immigrants
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Only illegal governments
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Black is not just the color of our skins
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It's this color of our politics
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There is no such thing as illegal immigrants
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Only illegal governments
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Today, the color line is the power line, is the poverty line
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