Cultural Appropriation

from Cultural Appropriation EP by Nyentek

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The sun rises over a beautiful yard
My neighbors quiet as the dead
How many lives were lost to “secure” this land
Stolen by deceitful means years ago

The beauty of our spaces dwarfed
By incomparable greed for wealth
Means mistaken for an end
Surely a way to stop living

Cultures destroyed by the quest for wealth

I live next to a graveyard
Yet I’m not haunted by bad dreams
I don’t need to live with synthetic dyes
And I don’t need to catch dreams I don’t plan to steal

Funny how so many who claim faithfulness
Worship idols of rectangular means
Adopt the faces of those their ancestors once slaughtered
Claiming it’s “all in good fun.”

Cultures destroyed by the quest for wealth
Needless to say, this harms our health
Cultures destroyed by the quest for wealth
Needless to say, this harms our health

So tell me, how would you feel
If you spent your life fighting unjust peoples
Only to pass away
And have those peoples’ children wear your face on a shirt
No amount of investment in sports or betting
Means you deserve to appropriate another person’s face

How can it be real that a white man wears a headdress
Shouts down a Native American man
The white man claiming his garb as sacred
Although its origin lies in the people who fought against white settlers

Cultures destroyed by the quest for wealth
Needless to say, this harms our health
Cultures destroyed by the quest for wealth
Needless to say, this harms our health
Cultures destroyed by the quest for wealth
Needless to say, this harms our health
Cultures destroyed by the quest for wealth
Needless to say, this harms our health

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from Cultural Appropriation EP, released April 9, 2018

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Nyentek Chicago, Illinois

An “adventurer in electronic sounds-poetry” whose music is “mind-bending, at times blissfully bizarre.”

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