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Şarkı Sözleri Today, the color line is the power line, is the poverty line Racism and imperialism work in tandem And poverty is their handmaid 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 intertwined in color, 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 organizations, 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 is no such thing as illegal immigrants Only illegal governments Black is not just the color of our skins It's this color of our politics There is no such thing as illegal immigrants Only illegal governments Today, the color line is the power line, is the poverty line