I Would Very Much Like To See What Happened In Oka In 1990 Happen Everywhere lyrics

Song information

Artist: Propagandhi
Album: I'd Rather Be Flag-Burning

Lyrics

The best thing I ever saw on tv
Was that s.q. (securite quebec) cop catching a bullet with his teeth
Condolence, mme. canadiana, but your husband was a fucking (stuck) pig
But this song's not about some romantic account of history
It's not about martyrs or mythos or heroes or burnings-in-effigy
It's about a native kid flipping her lid
Just trying to keep some self-respect intact
It's about an oka the size of a fist in resistance
And a will to fight back..
And the girls at work, they still deny their racism
They claim tolerance for all
But it seems the degree of (only) racial slurs
Is their gauge (and it defines tolerance as hate)
And there's 27 million "girls-at-work" here
Imagine fighting that for 500 years
And golly-gee! how valient!
How the white oppressor makes allowance
For calculated gestures of insurgence
(All tightly tethered to their purses/purpose)
Oka had this orchestra(tion) aborted
Oka fucked their rules to choose a future self-determined
And i, for one, support it..
...And the smartest thing I think I ever said:
"If a kevin kostner kavalry is your means to their end
Then the struggle is dead"
Why do we pretend that our approval is upon what they depend?

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

"I'd Rather Be Flag-Burning" album track list