[Dr. Angela Davis] and there's another enemy
[Dynasty by Rina Sawayama intro]
and that enemy is.. the immigrant
 
[Rina] I'm losing myself
In the darkness of the world
catch me before I fall..
[Dr. Angela Davis] it's not accidental
.. I don't think
that as this
rhetoric
this anti crime rhetoric developed
as the anti welfare rhetoric developed..
an anti immigrant rhetoric also developed
[Rina] Saving myself
is all I've really known
 
seen it been done before..
[Dr. Angela Davis]  and, you see.. it's interesting, it's not just
a question of preventing
people from other countries from coming to the US
 
and trying to establish a life here,
uh.. [noise in crowd]
it's a question of presenting
certain kinds of people
people from certain countries
 
people from third world countries
 
people from central America..
people from.. Asia
i - i read a study that indicated that
actually, the [fillers] the largest number of
illegal, quote illegal immigrants
 
come from European countries
but no one ever considers the possibility
[Rina] seen it been done before..
[Dr. Angela Davis] that a white person could be an illegal.
 
[Rina] I'm a dynasty!
The pain in my veins is hereditary..
Dynasty..
running in my bloodstream, my bloodstream
Dynasty
And if that's all that I'm gonna be
Would you break the chain with me?
[Dr. Angela Davis] I know.. quite a number of
illegal.. people
you know from places like, uh,
Britain and France
who come in on student visas
and decide to stay
and they don't even feel threatened
i mean, it's interesting.. they're not even afraid
of the INS
whereas people who are quote, legal citizens..
but who look as if they
might come from another country
fear what the INS might do to them
or that if they don't have their ID with them
that they might get deported
so itsn't it interesting? that in all three of these, um
examples that i've given
the figures are clearly.. racialised figures
[transition into Dynasty, Rina sings] I'm gonna take the throne this time
All the world's all mine, all mine
It's been way too long, too far
Too gone, to carry on
You can't hide it in the walls
Sweep it under marble floors
It's been living in our lives
Best told damn family lie
 
[Rina] Anything you get, return to..
[Dr. Angela Davis] a structural..
connection between the demonisation of the immigrant..
and the criminialisation of..
populations of colour in this country
[Rina] and if that's all that I'm gonna be..
would you break the chain
with.. me!!!!!
[Dynasty outro.. then silence]
[Dr. Angela Davis] because we're talking about
capitalism in the age of globalisation.
right, we're talking about global capitalism.
we're talking about trans national capitalism.
what we are witnessing is the development
of..a.. uh..
circuit of corporations
that belong to no particular nation state
that.. do not.. are not expected
to respect the laws of any given.. nation state
that move across borders..
at will
in search, in perpetual search
of
what?
more profits.
