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Migration Matters Built the Eurokleptocene Era

Before you run amok, smashing windows, burning cars and telling us to go back to where we came from... can you tell your cousins to come back to where they came from...

By Aza Y AlamPublished about 6 hours ago 1 min read
 Migration Matters Built the Eurokleptocene Era
Photo by Judy Beth Morris on Unsplash

We got taxed to death during droughts and famine

While you built your famed Industrial Revolution

But your history books never clarified the causal connection

It was from the stolen knowledge of our world-famous craftspeople

And your spies also stole the techniques for making china, silk

And the Chinese concoction they invented for festivals and fireworks

That you with your barbaric brains, hyper-focussed on mafia-type tactics

Called 'gunpowder,' with that you built your kidnapping, enslaving culture!

Who enlisted for wars of aggression and even broke our weavers' thumbs

So that your clumsy, machine-made textiles, would have, no competition?

You bums - your paved streets, fancy mansions and stately universities

(Housing the skulls of murdered Indigenous peoples)

In Oxford, Cambridge, London, Liverpool, Manchester and Bristol

Were built on the trillions of pounds of stolen goods - plus forced labour

And your quintessentially 'English' custom of drinking tea was impossible

When gram for gram, tea sold for the very same price as silver!

Ever wondered how come tea is now, cheaper than a bottle of water?

It was two centuries of forcing Indian people, to grow not food

But whatever tickled the palates of English aristocrats and

Their brainwashed working classes - the fodder for factories, mines

And endless wars for occupation and extracting wealth

Yes, our grandparents came over on boats and planes

After their brothers and sisters died in your World Wars

Short of labour, your government opened up passport-controlled doors

You people, you don't know your own history!

For two summers you've come out on the streets

Smashing our windows, burning our cars, yelling

'Go back to where you came from'

But can you be fair for once - start with your cousins in the 'New World'

Canada, Australia and New Zealand

All your RAF/IDF relatives/spies, living on stolen, holy Indigenous lands

Start with telling them to come back, where they came from.

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About the Creator

Aza Y Alam

Exploring how the political is personal and making sense of life, as an artistic teacher, a justice-seeking researcher, and a writer, one story, essay and poem at a time... Join me on the journey!

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