Oka Everywhere - Propagandhi - V/A - Liberation Records, Propagandhi

The best thing I ever saw on TV

Was that S.Q.

cop catching a bullet with his teeth

Condolence, madame 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

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 500 years

And golly-gee, how valiant how the white oppressor makes allowance

For calculated gestures of insurgence

All tightly tethered to their purses/purpose

Oka had this orchestra aborted

Oka fucked their rules to choose a future self-determined

And I support it

And the best 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?