Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 16:46.
Here's Weinberg's translation (with only minimal help from Babel Fish):
We Are More American
A thousand times they've screamed at me to go back to my country,
Because I don't belong here
I want to remind the gringo: I didn't cross the border, the border crossed me.
America was born free, men divided it.
They painted the line; to call me an invader because I jump it is a glaring error.
Eight states were taken from us, who here is the invader?
I am a stranger in my land, and I don't come to bring war,
I'm just a working man.
And if history doesn't lie, here began the glory of the powerful nation
Between valiant warriors, Indians of two continents, mixed with Spanish.
And if we look to the centuries: we are more American,
We are more American than the son of the Anglo-Saxon.
[Spoken:]
They bought from us without money the water of the Rio Grande. And they took from us Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. Also California and Nevada with Utah was not enough; the state Wyoming they also snatched from us. I am of Indian blood, I am Latino, I am mestizo. We are of all colors and and all walks of life, and if we count the centuries, even though it causes our neighbor pain--we are more American than every little one of the gringos.
And if history doesn't lie, here began the glory of the powerful nation
Between valiant warriors, Indians of two continents, mixed with Spanish.
And if we look to the centuries: we are more American,
We are more American than the son of the Anglo-Saxon.
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Here's Weinberg's translation (with only minimal help from Babel Fish):
We Are More American
A thousand times they've screamed at me to go back to my country,
Because I don't belong here
I want to remind the gringo: I didn't cross the border, the border crossed me.
America was born free, men divided it.
They painted the line; to call me an invader because I jump it is a glaring error.
Eight states were taken from us, who here is the invader?
I am a stranger in my land, and I don't come to bring war,
I'm just a working man.
And if history doesn't lie, here began the glory of the powerful nation
Between valiant warriors, Indians of two continents, mixed with Spanish.
And if we look to the centuries: we are more American,
We are more American than the son of the Anglo-Saxon.
[Spoken:]
They bought from us without money the water of the Rio Grande. And they took from us Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. Also California and Nevada with Utah was not enough; the state Wyoming they also snatched from us. I am of Indian blood, I am Latino, I am mestizo. We are of all colors and and all walks of life, and if we count the centuries, even though it causes our neighbor pain--we are more American than every little one of the gringos.
And if history doesn't lie, here began the glory of the powerful nation
Between valiant warriors, Indians of two continents, mixed with Spanish.
And if we look to the centuries: we are more American,
We are more American than the son of the Anglo-Saxon.