<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=570290" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Red With Native Blood</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Give them back their bloody land, <br>red with native blood.<br>We have soiled it so, with our hands, <br>red with native blood.<br>The earth was stained, when we first came, <br>red with native blood.<br>We stole their domain, with a barbaric claim: <br>that we were civilised and they were not, <br>that they were the savages and we were not, <br>when we ravaged the land that began to clot, <br>red with native blood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not content with genocide<br>we interned them in reserves.<br>To break their culture<br>and tribal ways; <br>in stealing children<br>the state was brave, <br>to turn their women<br>into household slaves, <br>and hope their men would die, <br>unmourned, in lonely graves; <br>a problem to us no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Give them back their bloody land, <br>red with native blood.<br>Acknowledge their just demands, <br>wash the stains from our hands, <br>give them back their bloody land, <br>red with native blood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+SmithWhite">David SmithWhite</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=570290" data-title="Red With Native Blood de David SmithWhite" data-description="Give them back their bloody land, red with native blood. We have soiled it so, with our hands, red with native blood. The earth was stained, when we first came, red with native blood. We stole their domain, with a barbaric claim: that we were ..."></div> </div> </div>

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