Song of the Nine Old Men

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dee doo
dah what do
you expect from nine
old men born before our great war
and walt missouri raised under the wing of jim crow
uncle rhemus and br'er menagerie lie buried thick in the roux of racism but
no lynchings only nice pre puberty multi racial play and sweet security
of a magic negro's care for a privileged white boy—
without knowing it these artists
white sugar faced the
brutal truth
of their
world
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