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Like Du Bois' two figures, hating, till their death;
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and hating, their children's children live today.
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Well, here are two children.
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But note what he's reversed.
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We got a young white woman
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who should've been in the resentful white working-class,
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and an old black man
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who no doubt grew up in Jim Crow
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and probably has told story after story of the denigration or destruction
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of his dignity for the first 45 years of his life.
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But he's there because of Ashley.
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Thank you.