magicmonkey
TPF Noob!
A sad story in the life of a vibrant comunity here in Oxford. Cowley is the 'ethnic melting pot' of the city and always full of vibrance and a strong feel of the community (often punctuated by drunken students and other louts but what can you do?!?) This is some graffiti painted by a group of local artists who were given a wall to paint bt a local estate agent and told to do whatever they wanted with it. They painted a wonderful scene and wrote some wonderful words which were relevantto the comminuty at large and had a great deal of support on the day of painting, the next day they arrived to find that the peopm had been painted over:
Here's what the poem read if you're interested:
The Myth of Third World Debt
I hear tell
that the ‘West’ claims
‘Third World’ countries
owe them a debt.
The white people them
They come to our countries
they unleash
upon we
the holocaust of slavery
the evil, parasitic, violent process
them call colonization.
What this means is
them rape Mother Africa
took her children to use as donkey
went right inside Mother Africa belly
and steal her resources
send them back home
to the ‘west’.
We the Africans,
funded the industrial revolution
with our blood, sweat, and tears and
Life.
So I don’t really understand
what the ‘west’ means
when them talk
‘bout ‘Third world debt’
I believe them have no shame
I know they full of untruth
they lie to themselves constantly
cause truth will kill them fe true.
I ask you to reconsider
who owes whom?
The west owes Africa
a debt so great
them can never
fully repay.
Though we may not say it,
don’t think we do not see it
We are silent
because white men talk too much
all in aid
of hiding the truth.
Third world debt
is a fiction of
white mans imagination.
Thanks for looking, C&C welcome as always...
Here's what the poem read if you're interested:
The Myth of Third World Debt
I hear tell
that the ‘West’ claims
‘Third World’ countries
owe them a debt.
The white people them
They come to our countries
they unleash
upon we
the holocaust of slavery
the evil, parasitic, violent process
them call colonization.
What this means is
them rape Mother Africa
took her children to use as donkey
went right inside Mother Africa belly
and steal her resources
send them back home
to the ‘west’.
We the Africans,
funded the industrial revolution
with our blood, sweat, and tears and
Life.
So I don’t really understand
what the ‘west’ means
when them talk
‘bout ‘Third world debt’
I believe them have no shame
I know they full of untruth
they lie to themselves constantly
cause truth will kill them fe true.
I ask you to reconsider
who owes whom?
The west owes Africa
a debt so great
them can never
fully repay.
Though we may not say it,
don’t think we do not see it
We are silent
because white men talk too much
all in aid
of hiding the truth.
Third world debt
is a fiction of
white mans imagination.
Thanks for looking, C&C welcome as always...