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Great White North Pt 2

from Mike All (album) by MikeAll

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Historical and political track about racism in Canada

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-Great White North Pt2-
(Chorus)
The flags tainted with racist imagery/
Ivory equals white supremacy/
Red's for blood shed by minorities/
If you disagree do your history (and you'll see)/

(Verse 1)
CA's First Nation's worst hated/
Surely hard to learn with earth contaminated/
Burning thirst for hydration in Attawapiskat
Where firewater’s safer than aqua out the tap/

Ping into your roots difficult to do/
Syllabi was genocide at residential schools/
Abuse of the youth shameful facts/
Secret path‎ dropped Charlie Wenjack @ train track/

With lack of community moved from jury duty‎/
Can u get a fair shot not for Colten Boushie (RIP)/
Nothing new be Native game for the hunt/
Of culture destruct ask the Beothuk wzup/

Enough is enough what idle no more/
How many MMIW ignored/
Indigenous living's habitually critical/
It's pitiful that the sequels still identical-

(Chorus)
(Verse 2)
In 1914 South Asia was in Britain's grip/
Nearly five hundred Indians decided on a trip/
Out to BC for work as loggers/
Komagata Maru was the ship they charted/

They crossed the salt water to Vancouver harbor/
But couldn't disembark or go any farther/
Sent back to India 19 were slaughtered/
Many jailed on accusations they were Ghadar/

What's that an anti-British party/
Who wanted mutiny in the Indian army/
Supposed to be equal subjects of the British crown/
Yeah right if your skin is brown/

In BC Sikh workers had been around/
Amongst riots to kick them out of town/
Immigration laws were made to block entry/
Seems Whites only is what the North was meant to be-

(Chorus)
(Verse 3)
‎‎Seems like it's only fair when your skin is/
But pigment isn't only requisite for privilege/
critic of part one White titles limited/
ask Euro immigrants to see how it distinguishes/

‎Only WASPs bee king of this colony‎/
Other Europeans deemed lower quality/
If jobs be raunchy brought on to construct/
‎Big up labour force of Bloor viaduct/

During war man less humanitarian/
See internment of German Austro-Hungarians/
‎WW2 how much Jews to be given entry/
Government official said "None is too many"/

This history contravenes our identity/
Change is true dough to buy "just society"/
Let's CA rainbow and blaze light forth/
Make red one blood in the Great White North-

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from Mike All (album), released May 26, 2018
Lyrics: MikeAll and Lumos
Production: Nec Nimble (soundcloud.com/necnimble)

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MikeAll Toronto, Ontario

MikeAll (formerly known as Mikeraphone) is a Scarborough, Ontarian. He has released three solo albums; "Mike Check" (2008), "Mike Support" (2015) and "Mike All" (2018). In 2019, he helped form the Hip Hop Headucatorz. MikeAll's goal is to put the poet back into Rhythm And Poetry.
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