The Nina, The Pinta and The Santa Maria are the names of three of Columbus' ships he sent with the aid of Spanish rulers to discover what he thought was the East Indies, but was actually the Americas.
Michael Moore, famous for his political documentaries Bowling For Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, directed the video for this song. It was nominated for the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video, but lost to Limp Bizkit's "Break Stuff." Tim Commerford of Rage interrupted the ceremony with his own protest when Limp Bizkit won.
This is about the influence of capitalism and the United States on the world. Numerous references to exploitative Western legacies (Columbus' ships, the fields overseer of the slaves in the American South, my agents of orange, the priests of Hiroshima).
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