We came over to Utopia
But could not recognize it.
A blissful land ‘o plenty
Then thought we’d supersize it.
‘Manifest Destiny,’
We called it with no shame.
We called the natives savages
And then, their land, we claimed.
We didn’t know we didn’t know
And then assumed the right
To push aside our fellow man
And slaughter them by night.
We brought with us Smallpox and
A litt’ny of diseases.
We gave infected blankets to
The natives in deep freezes.
We made all sorts of promises
We didn’t plan to keep.
Treaties with the white people
Were like their talk, so cheap.
They even gave a bounty if you
Skinned a native’s head
Then blamed the scalping on the fuckng
“Indians” instead!
We killed so many natives that it
Dropped the global temp.
By two degrees completely—
We exerted our footprint.
We slaughtered all the bison
Why I do not know.
Ostensibly to starve them
All the Sioux and all the Crow.
So don’t talk superiority
You genocidal fools.
You don’t get to gloat and boast
Or to make up the rules!
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