Luka Lesson - History Books lyrics

I'm sick of hearing about Captain Cook he was not the worst of the bunch check in your history books he had orders to show Indigenous people respect it's just a pity that he landed with a cargo full of convicts Who didn't care about respect they were fighting to survive they came from a city where rats could eat you alive and they were fully of pain themselves they'd just spent months in a cell trapped with chains and gangrenous health and brains full of hate And that hate spread life wildfire and it they took it out on every black man, woman and child their brains were full of Darwin's theories of evolution it formed the basis of executions and that's the basis for this artistic revolution because no man is better than any other man or more advanced look what we've done to this place and tell me we're more advanced No we are not we were wrong that's the sound of change my friends For the first hundred years we had a frontier landscape with no laws to follow or cops to enforce a mandate and by the time there were laws and things became illegal the government gave the public guns to k** Aboriginal people because they were 'squatting' on pristine white farmland and now we've all got rich we can sit and judge them from our armchairs The same thing happened with the Nazis didn't it? where my ancestors were marched up a mountain and pushed off a cliff that's what happened to the ancestors of these Aboriginal kids so now we make music just to share a common reason to live and if an N.T. teacher doesn't care about what their history is you think they're gonna go to cla** and listen to sh**? You better listen to this because hip-hop and poetry are the only places a real education can still exist