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Unread 02-15-2017, 08:23 PM
William A. Baurle William A. Baurle is offline
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Good one, Ralph. GM is happy, somewhere.

I searched around and found a few things that might fit your thread. The following is a song lyric. The song is uploaded to Soundcloud. The lyric is about racism and prejudice, and contains the dreaded N word. I hope that it is acceptable in context.

I grew up around racism. It was thick in my own family, and it caused me no end of conflict and rage. I remember crying in my room one day after my father had said something horrible about a black cadet from West Point, where my father worked, who had drowned.

My father is much older and doesn't use that word anymore, and we had a nice talk about Frederick Douglass the other day. He's almost a changed man, which gives me some hope for others.

Anyway, the song:

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Smith and Jones

Mrs Smith and Mrs Jones
compare insurance policies.
They say beware the niggers, them are coming,
and the jews.


Mrs Smith and Mrs Jones
button shirts and hide their bones,
pretend to be in love with God and Christ
(but not the jews).

Mrs Smith and Mrs Jones
talk above white cups of tea
in kitchens cleanly kept and neatly swept
by hired brooms.

Mrs Smith and Mrs Jones
smile and smirk their dental work.
They dip in pools to cool and when they cry
they lie.

Last edited by William A. Baurle; 02-18-2017 at 09:42 PM. Reason: added link
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