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old white fellow he was about 70 or something years old
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spiting could hardly spit off himself said
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said all you niggers like you should be ship back to Africa
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so I hollered to him if we have to go Africa how come can't you go I
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said if you go to Africa you be my slave now as long as I'm in the United States I'm your slave
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now he said something
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[chattering]
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and I act just like a fool man
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I said ya'll had from 1863 until 1963 as one century
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and they had us colored people on the slave that long
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if ya'll don't wake up come out that grave
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and try to step up high you never will
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you understand me you never will
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so me what I care about one just like this microphone ya'll can pick it up and bust it
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and I don't think nothing of it
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[CLAPPING]
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that the way I feel one so they put it in the cell
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and they start shipping them pieces three times a day
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(busting em already if they don't put em back)
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OK they start shipping em pieces bundle ya know three time a day so
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for the first eight days I was eating them cause I didn't know how long I was gonna be up
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for the last left some more boy come to give us some milk peas and bread
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so the bread ad to be about that thick
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they don rise down on the sun now you know
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I mean so I start shipping it back to them
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I mean I get it I give it to some other boy who look like they can't do with out it so I give it to them
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I lose about 7 pounds while I was in If I had to go back I lose every pound I got don't worry bout 140-
[CHEERING]
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[Clapping]
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and so