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Transcription: [00:18:51]
They'll say yes sir. They whooped her everytime. [yeah]

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They brought the guards in there and made the guards whip her.

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That's right! All this was going on. And what is the difference between nigh on three hundred fifty years ago. Ain't much difference. We still slaves!

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And that's why we got to ball. Bend our knees and straighten our heads in a sense and dig in!

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They say we were gon be free. And we're gon do all these little things that's possible in order for us to be free.

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We're going to have to start thinking. And all you maids in here and all of those that you know maids. Find out what the white folks are thinking.

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You don't have to tell them you're spying on them. Look around, that's right! If I look on them, start reading some of that mail sometime.

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See what's on the desk.

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They gone half the day they don't know what you doin.

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See? That's right! [[Amen!]]

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We gotta get smart they smart on us they buggin our telephones!

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We gotta get us an underground.

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And tell get that word back to [[sand block]] what the white folks thinkin.

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That's right.

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Way we broke the thing up there in Fayette county when they had all them people in tents.

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A maid sneaked in and got the combination to the safe, and took out the black list.

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See they all them Negros on a black list.

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And got the black list, copied the black list and put it back.

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They never knew where the Negros got the information from.

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And the maid is the most powerful person in a community like this.

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'Cause while you servin them food they talkin bout them niggas doin this and the niggas doin that!

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And don't keep it to yourself I know what it is!

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I know what they sayin!

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See?

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And they oughta be thankful that we are proud and honest people 'cause we could slip some cyanide into the food and they'd never know what would happened, see?

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But we ain't gon do that!

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We love em! We love em! We gon I ain't tryna give you no ideas, we love em!

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See we gon treat em nonviolently. We gon win em!