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"The great Tuskegee experiment"
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"To allow the Negro type to fly airplanes has failed."
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And you all thought what?
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You'd sign up.
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You get shiny boots, a uniform,
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and that'd be the end of 100 years of bigotry?
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You're colored men in a white man's army.
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It's a miracle you're flying fighters in Italy,
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and not mopping latrines in Milwaukee!
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You want it straight?
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Yes, the old man's stateside, fighting the good fight.
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And when he comes through for us,