"Defiant Disco - Saracens, Dum Diversas, Manifest Destiny, Monroe Doctrine"
words and editing by Mary Ann Thompson-Frenk
Music by Mureka AI
The Monroe Doctrine
is just a modern version
of "Manifest Destiny",
(which was the USA’s strategic opportunity
To forge an adaptation of "Dum Diversas"
issued in 1492 by Pope Nicholas V,
authorizing King Alfonso V of Portugal to conquer "Saracens”
(meaning Muslims and pagans)
reducing them to perpetual slavery.
Saracens, Dum Diversas, Manifest Destiny, Monroe Doctrine….
Different eras, but same conquistador tactics,
Same fueled greed with different semantics
That’s why they need to erase our history,
Covering hard earned lessons with mystery
So that our population won’t be bogged down by Didactics
Saracens, Dum Diversas, Manifest Destiny, Monroe Doctrine….
Stories of oppression, violence and hate with racists seeking to justify
Violence with the cross, the ultimate abomination by their own theological definition
Saracens, Dum Diversas, Manifest Destiny, Monroe Doctrine….
Different eras, but same conquistador tactics,
Same the fueled greed with different semantics
That’s why they need to erase our history,
Covering hard earned lessons with mystery
So that our population won’t be bogged down by Didactics
Allows those with the biggest army to feel righteous about dehumanizing,
demographics of people different from themselves,
so they don’t have to recognize the villain inside,
and can justify hate with their heads held high.
Saracens, Dum Diversas, Manifest Destiny, Monroe Doctrine….
Different eras, but same conquistador tactics,
Same the fueled greed with different semantics
That’s why they need to erase our history,
Covering hard earned lessons with mystery
So that our population won’t be bogged down by Didactics.
But we’ve heard this song before,
And the blood of our ancestors has not yet dried, nor
Shall we be silenced by the gaslighting asking us to accept their perspective of reality
When we know to do so would kill what keeps us free.
From 120,000 Japanese Americans in ten internment camps
overseen by the War Relocation Authority
To the Trail of Tears and Greenwood’s Black Wallstreet,
Families forced to leave all they owned in fear and surrender all they’d built in defeat,
Yet, from the Pueblo Revolt to MLK’s speech,
From the defiance of Marine General Smedley Butler
Who stood against would-be fascism of the 1930’s
Refusing to sell our nation ahead of ego,
We possess a different history
A defiant polyhistory
Steeped within those who recall
Freedom came with a price paid in blood not yet dried from
Saracens, Dum Diversas, Manifest Destiny, Monroe Doctrine….
Different eras, but same conquistador tactics,
Same the fueled greed with different semantics
That’s why they need to erase our history,
Covering hard earned lessons with mystery
So that our population won’t be bogged down by Didactics.
Standing Rock elevated the Blackwater mercenaries
Hired by corporate conquistadors with the government’s blessing
A warning that no USA citizen, not even an indigenous Native,
Is safe when standing against the corporate bought and paid for government narrative.
All so that robbing a people of land, resources and assets,
Of houses, tearing away children from their arms and dividing spouses,
Separating loved ones without the need to justify actions,
Because to do so is to claim their valuables for the supposed good of the nation,
Yet, only the favored among the most corrupt factions
Will benefit from these evil transactions,
Then embrace their spoils with self righteous celebration.
The corporate conquistador,
Bending knee to trump their king,
Righteously citing
Saracens, Dum Diversas, Manifest Destiny, Monroe Doctrine….
Different eras, but same conquistador tactics,
Same the fueled greed with different semantics
That’s why they need to erase our history,
Covering hard earned lessons with mystery
So that our population won’t be bogged down by Didactics.
But nothing will erase the stain of blood upon their name
And history will prove, those who supported MAGA and their ICE gestapo
will be regarded with shame.
The question therefore remains, how long will our nation play their game?
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