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