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0 With his big bad self
Da chief pimps into da fort
To tell us dis :
`Trust White-eye . He ain't all bad ."
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So some of us in da fort drop our sneers
and stop sticking out our tongues at The Man.
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Some bring their blondes down front
while others just grin cause they were right all the time .
"White-eyes will fight they daddies and stand shoulder
to shoulder with us."
And some yawned and let the white-eyes play lookout for them
Pick their brains, too, did white-eyes,
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doing the fly Fly down the straight and true path of our hopes .
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p It was Willie who pulled our coats early one morning p
o to the dust clouds dying on the horizon o
p and all the arms gone from da fort. o
O -JOHN MCCLUSKEY
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NEGRO DIGEST March 1970 37
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