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1968. Blacks Blues. Black Number one. The great fatherland which was carried away into slavery by the white man. ready buddy. Whoa Yeah. Whoa, Yeah cuello rojo, E. Or me lately. Oh, Room E Or me Lane. Oh yeah. Before yeah. Before their,

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oh they mean ceramic bowl. Oh E or me. Lay me a. O. Room. The Buffett rule. Very Oh, whoa. Canyoneering. LeBeau. Mhm Yeah. Hello, my name is Maya Angelo. What is africa to me? 1, 3 centuries removed from the lands. My father's love spicy grove. A

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cinnamon tree. What is africa to me? This is a question I asked myself and I asked black americans and I attempt in this series to answer it to my satisfaction at entering anyway. If the african continent had never been opened for trade, legal and illegal, licit

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and illicit slave and free the planet as we know, it would have a different faith And south America, North America and the caribbean would be unrecognizable. Mm recognize that game. That's Jack's. I'm not very good. The game was brought to the United States by the slaves.

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It's still played in West africa of course there's plenty of rubber. So the Children have balls, but the Jacks instead of tax, they use stones. Do you know that black american Children play uh, hide and seek? They call it hide and go seek with a song.

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And the song is Last night, night before 24 robbers at my door. Who all his head asked me to let him men hit him in the head with a rolling pin. Who all is he? 5 10 15 2025 30 35 40. Who all is here for

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only 5 50 55 60 65 70 75 80. Who all is here? Who old is he? Who all this hit all. You ain't hit, huh? We went to see some Children playing hokey pokey in an alley in san Francisco the other day. You do the hokey

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pokey here to tell you, Yeah, yeah. Back you do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. That's what you do. That's what it's all about. And that could have you shake it all right. You do the hokey

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pokey and you turn trapped around my paper. Hey, you do the hokey pokey and you turn around. That's what it's all about.