Lyrics Colour Line - Asian Dub Foundation
Today,
the
Colour
Line
Is
the
Power
Line
Is
the
Poverty
Line
Racism
and
imperialism
work
in
tandem
And
poverty
is
their
handmaiden
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
interwined
in
colour,
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,
Are
just
a
few
of
the
organisations,
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's
no
such
thing
as
illegal
immigrants,
Only
illegal
governments...
Black
is
not
just
the
colour
of
our
skins
It's
the
colour
of
our
politics...
There's
no
such
thing
as
illegal
immigrants,
Only
illegal
governments...
Today,
the
colour
line
Is
the
power
line
Is
the
poverty
line
1 Real Great Britain
2 Memory War
3 Officer XX
4 New Way, New Life
5 Riddim I Like
6 Collective Mode
7 Crash
8 Colour Line
9 Taa Deem
10 The Judgement
11 Truth Hides
12 Rebel Warrior
13 Committed To Life
14 Scaling New Heights
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