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When yall were slaves, you used to sing like birds

Let’s hear us a good ole fashioned ngr work song
Chrome famous landscape painting
  04/24/18
(Vonnegut)
irradiated trailer park
  04/24/18
I have to explain, too, see, why so many black people in Mi...
irradiated trailer park
  04/24/18
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Date: April 24th, 2018 1:47 AM
Author: Chrome famous landscape painting

Let’s hear us a good ole fashioned ngr work song

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Date: April 24th, 2018 1:48 AM
Author: irradiated trailer park

(Vonnegut)

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Date: April 24th, 2018 1:52 AM
Author: irradiated trailer park

I have to explain, too, see, why so many black people in Midland City were able to imitate birds from various parts of what used to be the British Empire. The thing was, see, that Fred T. Barry and his mother and father were almost the only people in Midland City who could afford to hire Niggers to do the Nigger work during the Great Depression. They took over the old Keedsler Mansion, where Beatrice Keedsler, the novelist, had been born. They had as many as twenty servants working there, all at one time. Fred's father got so much money during the prosperity of the twenties as a bootlegger and as a swindler in stocks and bonds. He kept all his money in cash, which turned out to be a bright thing to do, since so many banks failed during the Great Depression. Also: Fred's father was an agent for Chicago gangsters who wanted to buy legitimate businesses for their children and grandchildren. Through Fred's father, those gangsters bought almost every desirable property in Midland City for anything from a tenth to a hundredth of what it was really worth.And before Fred's mother and father came to the United States after the First World War, they were music hall entertainers in England. Fred's father played the musical saw. His mother imitated birds from various parts of what was still the British Empire.She went on imitating them for her own amusement, well into the Great Depression."The Bulbul of Malaysia," she would say, for instance, and then she would imitate that bird."The Morepark Owl of New Zealand," she would say, and then she would imitate that bird.And all the black people who worked for her thought her act was the funniest thing they had ever seen, though they never laughed out loud when she did it. And, in order to double up their friends and relatives with laughter, they, too, learned how to imitatethe birds.The craze spread. Black people who had never been near the Keedsler mansion could imitate the Lyre Bird and the Willy Wagtail of Australia, the Golden Oriole of India,the Nightingale and the Chaffinch and the Wren and the Chiffchaff of England itself. They could even imitate the happy screech of the extinct companion of Kilgore Trout's island childhood, which was the Bermuda Ern. When Kilgore Trout hit town, the black people could still imitate those birds, and say word for word what Fred's mother had said before each imitation. If one of them imitated a Nightingale, for instance, he or she would say this first: "What adds peculiar beauty tothe call of the Nightingale, much beloved by poets, is the fact that it will only sing by moonlight." And so on.

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Date: April 24th, 2018 4:23 AM
Author: Chrome famous landscape painting



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Date: April 25th, 2018 10:01 PM
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