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NOTE: these lyrics have numbered notes below that reference sources of information and inspiration.
Keep them out for the clothes they wear
Keep them out for their piercings and tattoos
Keep them out for who they love
Keep them out if they are not like you
Keep Them Out (x8)
Keep them out for any excuse,
to divide an us from them.
The struggles may be different,
but the thought process remains the same.
It's always...
(chorus x2)
Xenophobia. The roots of bigotry. [1]
Separate the outsiders.
No room for empathy
Defend the border.
Build a wall.
They send their worst.
You don't belong. [2]
Brown eyes bad
Blue eyes good [3]
No matter how much we learn
I see the same excuse
Protect freaks from the norms. [4]
Protect our women from eye rape. [5]
Protect our children from immigrants.
The thought process is all the same.
Keep them out for any excuse,
to divide an us from them.
The struggles may be different,
but the thought process remains the same.
It's always
(chorus x2)
A thin blue line to defend
the wealthy from the black skin. [6]
The door man checks your fashion,
to protect the fashion victims. [7]
Another clique. It makes me sick.
The roots of all this ignorance.
Can you bomb a person
without dehumanization [8]
by
(chorus x2)
Xenophobia (x4)
[notes]
[1] Although the history of every group's struggles against racism,
sexism, genocide, homophobia, and mistreatment for their religion,
nationality, or any number of other reasons all have their unique
stories, losses, and body counts, the root of all of the above is a
common theme of thought process in people. Xenophobia is the fear of
the other. That other could be other because of race, religion,
sexual preference, gender, nationality, language, or even something as
superficial as the way people dress, or if they have tattoos, or some
other superficial trait that is otherwise irrelevant. This song is an attempt to address this root issue of general prejudice, and tie it together in a way that hopefully both calls out great abuses but also makes us more
aware of the similarities in more socially accepted forms of
dehumanization and segregation that are far more common in our
society.
[2] This refers directly to statements made frequently by Donald Trump and his supporters among others. It was written early in his campaign and has only been proven to be more relevant as the Trump administration has pushed destructive rhetoric and policies.
[3] a nod to Jane Elliott's Blue Eyes Brown Eyes exercise on racism.
see also https://vimeo.com/153858146
[4]+[7] Common themes in various subcultures.
[5] "eye rape" was a Jim Crow charge that could get black men jailed
or executed for simply looking at a white woman, and was used as a
justification in lynchings including that of Emmett Till.
[6] The 'thin blue line' is a symbol that is used to represent police
heroically separating the good guys from the bag guys. A retired
police officer, however, described his former job as separating the rich and the poor. In years full of police killings and beatings caught on camera of mostly unarmed black men, the thin blue line suggests to me a different type of segregation of society by police. The FBI itself has a history of racism which includes their COINTEL PRO program which targeted black leaders including Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, and members of the original Black Panther Party. Perhaps it is a good sign for the FBI that in 2006 they detailed the threat of white supremacists infiltrating police in order to recruit more white supremacists into their ranks and disrupt investigations against fellow white supremacists. Numerous police including high ranking officers have been outed as members of the KKK by among other the FBI.
See also:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-RxvgIMfX4
https://vimeo.com/15930463
https://www.laprogressive.com/the-racist-legacy-of-the-lapd/
[8] Military campaigns have historically used propaganda that
encourages and uses xenophobia against the enemy, to dehumanize
whoever the war is fought against. Examples are plentiful and include
World War II usage of racist caricatures of Asian people that are
comparable to the racist caricatures done by the Nazis of African and
Jewish people. Sadly, modern Islamophobia has been fanned in similar
ways by some today as just one more example.
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