Ev’ry
person
scrolls –
It’s the trend of our day.
Ev’rywhere
I
scroll,
I read all the trending posts say:
“Who is this extreme right winger?”
“And, why all o’ this xenophobia?”
God/dexx!
We can’t let this get no furtherer!
We can’t let this get no furtherer!”
Isn’t ev’ry one of us just like Blair Peach?
Blair Peach was an ordinary man.
Blair Peach him took a simple stand
Against the fascists and their wicked plans.
Ev’ry one of us,
we too haffi make a stand!
“We can’t let this get no furtherer!
We can’t let this get no furtherer!”
Ev’ry
person
scrolls,
it’s the trend of our day,
Ev’rywhere
I
scroll,
I read all the trending posts say:
“Who is this extreme right winger?”
“And, why all o’ this xenophobia?”
God/dexx!
“We can’t let this get no furtherer!
We can’t let this get no furtherer!”
You and me,
We’re just like Blair Peach.
Blair Peach was an ordinary man.
Blair Peach him took a simple stand
Against the fascists and their wicked plans.
He said we can’t make them get no furtherer,
Then they killed Blair Peach the teacher,
Them killed Blair Peach, the dirty bleeders.
Blair Peach was not an English man,
Him come from New Zealand,
Now they kill him and him dead and gone,
But his memory lingers on.
Oh ye, people.
Is the whole world fast becoming a fascist state?
The answer lies at every border gate,
Every border gate lies inside every one of us.
So stop scrolling and ask yourself:
Is my inner-world view a fascist state?
That answer lies at your own gate,
And in your own answer lies our collective fate.
Sista Zai Zanda is a storyteller, educator and radio producer. Zai hosts and curates The Pan Afrikan Poets Café, the home of new, cutting edge and classic Afrikan literature. A pop up event for Afrikan and First Nations’ storytellers, the Pan Afrikan Poets Café merges Zai’s passions - radio production, storytelling, Afrikan literary culture and parties – into a curated celebration of Black Literary Art. Her latest publication ‘God Is A Black Womban’ is a Black Feminist text that borrows from a long tradition of Afrikan Women’s naked protest.
George Kanjere is a former dubstep producer and current dub reggae producer. He releases music under the moniker Third Culture, and produces it at his studio, Black Jube Records, in Naarm.
ThirdZai is the synergy of the creative powers of poet and story-teller Sista Zai Zanda and producer Third Culture. The collaborative duo came together through the shared inspiration to create work that reawakens and uplifts awareness about the revolutionary origins of reggae and, while staying in touch with these roots, to move Australian-via-Africa Roots Reggae in bold new directions.
