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{SPEAKER name="Dick Gregory"}
Think about the woman you love come and tell you she's pregnant with your baby
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and you cross your fingers and hope that baby is born crippled. [[Yeah]]
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Because you know if he's born healthy and strong,
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can you imagine what it must have felt like to get on your knees and pray to your god and ask him please let it be crippled.
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Here's what the slaves went through.
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Man would pray that his own son would have one arm so maybe he can get some freedom.
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And a hundred years from then, we have parents that worry about their kids being in jail over night.
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Many parents that didn't even know where their kids were for the first time, they know where they are 24 hours a day.
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24 hours a day. And there for a good cause and a good reason.
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How can a parent let a son play football when all he can do is help his team win a victory today thats going to be forgot tomorrow,
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but you can't let your son fight for freedom something that the whole world will profit by.
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Sometimes I wonder how much of this system corrupted us.
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Sometimes I wonder when will we be able to see that the day is over now, that we can say we not involved.
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Those four kids that was killed in that church, they were not demonstrating in Birmingham. You don't have to participate---