(Riffing on Gil Scott-Heron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGaoXAwl9kw)
Economic justice
Will not be televised
It will not be delivered
Like a fast food dinner
By white men
Using black economists
To front for them.
Economic justice
Will not be televised
It will not be delivered
By VAT zero-ratings
That benefit the rich
More than the poor.
Economic justice
Will not be televised
It will not be delivered
Like fast food transported by exploited workers
By commissioned research
Elevating the status of a few white men
Using black economists
To front for them.
Economic justice
Will not be televised
It will not be brought to you
Like a hot take
By the tentacles of institutes
Wrapped around civil society initiatives
To promote themselves.
Economic justice
Will not be televised
It will not be delivered
Cold
Like emailed interventions
To protect sexual harassers.
Economic justice
Will not be televised
It will not be brought to you
By men
Defending sex ‘not consensual’.
Economic justice
Will not be televised
It will not be delivered
By the festivities
Of ideological cliques
Shouting about reform.
Economic justice
Will not be televised.