[00:02.42]Today, the Colour Line/Is the Power Line/Is the Poverty Line
[00:40.20]Racism and imperialism work in tandem
[00:44.01]And poverty is their handmaiden
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[01:03.00]Those who are poor and powerless to break out of their poverty
[01:06.95]Are also those who by and large are non-white, non-western, third world
[01:11.52]Poverty and powerlessness are interwined in colour, in race
[01:17.66]Discrimination and exploitation feed into each other today
[01:22.37]Under global capitalism...
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[01:36.86]We are back to primitive accumulation - plunder on a world scale
[01:42.78]Only this time, the pillage is accompanied by aid, sustained by expert
[01:48.15]advice and underpinned by programmes and policies that perpetuate dependency
[01:54.14]The IMF, The World Bank, Structural Adjustment Programmes
[01:59.57]General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade - GATT,
[02:02.87]are just a few of the organisations, schemes, projects
[02:06.80]which under the guise of developing the third world, plunder it.
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[02:27.96]Trade agreements and commodity price-fixing, patents and
[02:32.84]intellectual property rights
[02:35.15]They lock them into paralytic dependency
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[03:07.82]There's no such thing as illegal immigrants, only illegal
[03:11.08]governments...
[03:17.98]Black is not just the colour of our skins
[03:25.78]It's the colour of our politics...
[03:28.90]There's no such thing as illegal immigrants, only illegal
[03:31.46]governments...
[03:41.83]Today, the colour line/is the power line/is the poverty line