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