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Western Fallacy

from Be Yourself Demo by Te Kooti Brotherhood

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A Western Fallacy

Twenty-nine die at Pike River Mine
While over three-fifty are somehow denied
A time to be mourned on our six O-clock news
Their deaths are forgotten amidst our need for
Western precedence

Nearly three thousand died in those towers
whilst malaria kills more in twenty-four hours
Yet these kids - five and younger - are granted no voice
And we sit back and take this as norm

Where is their good Samaritan? Where is our good Samaritan?

The media still reveals a western supremacy
reflecting a racism toward the majority
We've become immune to the state of their reality
And our eyes are turned away

We see the aids epidemic, mass poverty, war
and we trivialize, disassociate and ignore
Have we accepted a hopeless fatalism
or are we just too consumed to notice
...too preoccupied with the daily routines of life

Does our skin colour and cultural difference
blind us from the fact that we are one...
Whanau (whanau)
We share the same blood, we share the same blood.

Where is their good Samaritan? Where is our good Samaritan?

"Until lions have their own historians
Tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter"

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from Be Yourself Demo, released January 1, 2011

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