Silenced today not allowed to have my say
Coz I’m white I got no right to fight against
The racism and segregation at play
Minimised they way you’ve been
Dismissed the way you’ve been
Marginalised the way you’ve been
What right have I got to know
The difference between native title and
The people that sowed
The fields, tended the cows, were whipped and used
And centuries of genocide and hiding
The truth?
1992 was such a long time ago
Australia’s High Court well did know
That terra nullius had to go
But Howard and the neoliberals
Put a sharp end to principles
And Murdoch provided the pictures.
You can’t know how shocking it is
To hear a Person Of Colour
Enact segregation and hate
Full of righteousness and polarised thought
You vanish for what so many have fought
And brought the world to your black-and-white court
Person Of Colour?
Then what am I?
A Person Without Colour?
Or just white?
The benefit to you in creating a broader segregation
That covers the entire world in colour or white
Brings you a sense of might and protection
Your attitudes reveal the infection
Of fear and powerlessness and pain
Cosmopolitanism is the name of the game
We all gain together proud of diverse identities
Or continue the insane frame of
Me versus you.