Henry Crow Dog - Lakota Wisdom Keeper discusses Native philosophy & religion, 1973

Henry Crow Dog - Lakota Wisdom Keeper discusses Native philosophy & religion, 1973

Feb 12, 2021 #lakota #wisdomkeeper
In 1973 Dean Evenson was called out to Pine Ridge, South Dakota to videotape the occupation of Wounded Knee. Native Americans led by A.I.M. (American Indian Movement) occupied the town for 71 days in protest of poverty, treaty issues, and ongoing injustice toward the tribal people. The site was chosen for its symbolic value based on the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.

Dean and his team stayed in South Dakota for a month videotaping and learning more about the culture and situation. One of the people interviewed was medicine man Henry Crow Dog whose son Leonard Crow Dog was leading the occupation.

Henry explains that the message of the pipe is one of peace, of the connection of all things, of the connection to the spirit world with the material world, of the male and female energy, of thanksgiving for the blessings of the Mother Earth and of the Great Mystery. He also stated that from now on the pipe and the Bible would be together.

Spending time on the Pine Ridge and Rose Bud Reservations and learning of the Native perspective of respecting Mother Earth inspired Dean to dedicate his life and media to share that awareness with the rest of the world.

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100
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146 156
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and 166
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now at your ab put your every everything
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down there and see how far you could get
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see this uh the experience with uh
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they say the college and universities so
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they may go through there but uh i think
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they'll come to this subject
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with that spent our time get this
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subject why i don't think they would
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catch on
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so god creates he says
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these are carrying this medicine back uh
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the indians carrying on the
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heap is a clean
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infant one was born in the plastic like
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nothing not from father or mother but
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come the great spirit and they cut it
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open
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they received that uh evangeloplasty
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thing and
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they put their medicine that what to
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begin with
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that's that just goes up to peach should
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i finish out these letters
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yeah you could start another
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get to the z
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you don't think you could uh watch a man
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through the night if he's your friend
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you could keep your eyes awake from the
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same way with that to the female
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you could not be sleepy with your friend
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all night how much time you spend and
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that creates something
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is that right okay
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mm-hmm
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[Applause]
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family traveled from there all the
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relations get together and they have
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this uh
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y started so put that k i
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k e i s e r
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no i can't get the number of decay on
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that
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number
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and a
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look at those numbers that see
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if you could get 666.
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get it right
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never really
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no that that's what he said so a german
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german german nation is a good country
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or a spider spider violet culture
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and then hitler is a real
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real he's the artist and he's uh
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everything he start that
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uh he started at the second world war
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so no
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because they will have maybe it's his
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numbers that's why they got this
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they got the numbers and they called it
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that country
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they started with the 666
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kaiser wilhelm and hitler now hitler
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we got the ground spider
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and we had the water spider
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when we had the earth spider
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so hitler invents
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the submarine
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and the tank
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all the uh and all the the
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uh the uh on top of that
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somewhere in here the boat on the on the
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tank where he had uh
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we used to have a horse for that
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tank now we had the uh
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airplane up this spider in the cloud and
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the earthly spider and
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underwater spider three things
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three things and uh people
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did they keep there this was a
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what you will call the eye of the
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wisdom he had three names this year
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and hitler put another limb and
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and he he put it down the uh swastika
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there
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who who is who is going to be the lucky
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will get the lack of number two with the
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lucky man to be the boss of the entire
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the chief of an entire nation
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so the eye he does it is a spider with
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the four lanes and he got this one
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maybe you've seen him
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i've seen this sign someplace i went to
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that uh american uh
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american what they call i forgot their
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name
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they had two one one person had that uh
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they signed there and
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[Music]
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no no on that uh
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goon that goon
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the under or the under the water
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we had uh we had eight generations of
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some generation
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why uh we have on one corner
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they started with four legs
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and when we go into the going to the
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water wire
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we see that octopus some
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some they call it starfish but this is
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octopus
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and the person the person wants to catch
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catch on the spider's work
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so he he made
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he make some word
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how'd you do to send a message if you
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would
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drop the word the sound into the water
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and
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send it across the great water i wonder
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how that will travel
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but that spider out there
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the spider out there
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had two wings
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and one down here
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would have wings unless if you have a
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freeze design it's really to this one
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the submarine
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on on on here
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on here is uh
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a man you don't know which which
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which side which side is uh face up or
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face down
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with two horns
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so the white man went to get
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get to a basement but you'll get it but
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as long as
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they have leaner in their way learn they
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will learn everything
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and while well what others we
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will learn this way so this octopus
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believes the limbs form into uh
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uh
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like a human all these human bodies
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so they want to work in some way
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those are those actually got killed in
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that massacre they
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they put him there and they put in some
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uh those uh
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my nephew or my grandson
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on the distant grandson red pet
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was buried in that uh wouldn't leave
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cemetery well they wouldn't need
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cemetery stanford
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and uh no they would they want uh
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clear water there to uh be rare there
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while then
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maybe they didn't want no goons uh maybe
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uh they're going to the one that
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didn't want to burn any more goons in
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there
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or they work or they want to
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be bird no one that do the goon work
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that way they were to supply the world
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with their understanding but
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you you do the
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get the uh things
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uh like uh one person sitting here he
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was uh
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got a restraining order from pine ridge
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maybe he's a full blood maybe here is
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wilson maybe
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he's one right here maybe he belongs to
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his family
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now we have to learn what these goons
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mean
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i said goons and i used the
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word goons
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no no all this work is uh
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uh chris uh
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chris watch his name he called me
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and he called me xtomi
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if if you told me of this hemisphere be
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all right
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but he's a mixed blood
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i'm from a rural family and if it's a
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rock family why
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he shouldn't hang around here in this
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hemisphere but uh the work of that as a
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as i'll tell you that uh
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two parties get together they create
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something
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they want to do that i want to have it
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cornwall i have to get the
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hybrid coin no nothing to it
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and uh there's a young man brought some
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medicine which is corn
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now you put in that square card percent
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go and put some
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goods at the hybrid then then that'll be
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sooner right yeah
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same soil and same thing will come down
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and come to a square corn
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getting good breathing and inbreed where
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it doesn't
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that didn't uh so all this relation
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the word we use all my relation we have
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to
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get a new breath new kind of thing we
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have to change
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that's why the indian says then they
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will say amen
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but amen why people die
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that that is always uh
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that is always uh it is you know things
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like this but something has to
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come in right between and that can stop
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the uh
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what is goals so um
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so uh so this this
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works this works both
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where where my friends go
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now oh
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here's here here's the red man
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and here he is
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white man
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and the black man the yellow
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so we had uh we had the uh
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four four rings which i like to have
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them uh
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placement to get close
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i wanted to close so that they would
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understand
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what i'm doing with my ceremony
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so i had i think none of us
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none of the uh whites or none of the uh
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indians get in there with the sweatshirt
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that maybe they're originated from this
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uh
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cotton i don't know
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so here here is the red here the red and
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either you know i'll ask
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nixon to put his son is your endorsing
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here
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you know all invite martin luther 13
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and all of my uh i met the crown prince
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he didn't look like much of a crown
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prince because
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he looked like more more like a physical
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man but you know just like one of the
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stuff
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but so all this we said though
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we had to collect our college and create
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together to form a
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the understanding of the great creator
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that we did we didn't still understand
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so so you marked uh
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whichever you want to make uh
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leave a little
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put a red and black and yellow and
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white in letters
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of course yeah in any place you want
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very good
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oh you
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and whatever you want you could place
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your white any place or the black
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ah
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yeah see i know where the uh
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uh the red is from from this hemisphere
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and the black uh from india or africa
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and the yellow is somewhere in the west
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the pacific and the white is in europe
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no uh
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nothing contains of humanity
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but uh things that have had what
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happened
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after the birth of christ
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well uh they want to know
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what people belong to under that kingdom
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or their nation
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and that power so when christ was to be
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born right
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the road
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that they wrote
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too
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and i'll be back
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i'll do it myself because i have to
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build it in the way so that it
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started so i'll be back again i'll just
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fix that
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this thing has to be understand by
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witness by
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some people and and they take place with
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them
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why why this all uh
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if we're better with god with all laws
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and on the understanding
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and the human welfare will be all right
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but uh
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just like what we are in
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in in today that government at
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pine reach there there's some work of
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the dunes
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getting there want to put another weight
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for uh
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vandals and uh and mocking
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this
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and uh to christ christ himself
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he's a girly like a priest
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he he do something about the
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female or male but uh you know just as i
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said
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if i have to do my work i have to do my
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family work
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and so i'll be right back but what all
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these years have to be
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well understand when i take time when i
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had heavy marking on that but i'll be
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back
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within the power of god that the free
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government of the people
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body people and for the people
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now that's that's contained in include
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everything in there and
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from there they adopt the
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immigration law to migrate in this
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country
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but the emigration didn't contain with a
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lot of things that uh
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well what uh the uh
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uh immigrants mean
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immigrants means that uh
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[Music]
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the white people come in here and
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they got they want to get rich in a very
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short time before
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their life past over 50 years
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and that's how the people uh
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make the 50 years anniversary
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or quarterly anniversary or anniversary
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they have to
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come in
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so this they have the 50th anniversary i
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don't know how long we spent with the
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white folks
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until this time the great spirit maybe a
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couple of centuries or maybe less than
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that but
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now we are when come commence to realize
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who is right and who is wrong
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so that immigration law they should set
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aside
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that uh they said uh they've been
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starting with the
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revolutionary war the french and indian
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war and
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all that war things have been the
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wild doings and
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as i had one of the national astronauts
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that was a battle cry of
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freedom so long
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we had to learn about the white people
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myself i didn't learn much about the uh
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uh spiderman language i look in the
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dictionary but i
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uh i never catch on good
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so uh the civilization
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of that uh civilization of white men
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civilization
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[Music]
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we want to live in their white
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civilization
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but somebody has fiercely somebody has
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to stay with us in order to uh
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learn learn the their civilization
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and uh and they don't
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they don't care about our civilization
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no they want to have indian studies but
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no
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they should have that indian studies
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when they come out to have
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stepping on this soil but uh then
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they'll never do it no they want to uh
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they want to trace up their steps
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their footsteps and what uh
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bigfoot footsteps there why uh
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didn't make him didn't understand his
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footsteps or
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where bigfoot steps so
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there's another footstep
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want to take place to make the uh
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people realize that to make realize for
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somebody but
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they leave it to somebody that who don't
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know
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the prosecuting attorney or the judge
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and i am individually uh one
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or people we have to get together
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and uh uh they're giving a restraining
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order
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even the indians themselves they're full
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blood but uh you
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you you get out if that is why them
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judges have to
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go over there and practice with gardner
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then where they could judge
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anybody well then they they'll be all
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right but coming here and want to judge
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somebody but on this train order or that
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roadblocks will get nobody no place
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now god for the roadblock himself why
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it's going to be sad for you because uh
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all the works and all the treaties and
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all these treatments on the under that
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treaties were kind of they all
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all goes all direction
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now uh i are good friends i like to
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visit the uh
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kennedy family
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i seen uh martin luther king
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wife but i didn't
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visit not very long just uh some
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important part then what we do is
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uh we had some entertainment uh with the
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guitar
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music now these civil rights
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come to this time the white men
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shouldn't say that the civil rights
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or they should take this civil rights
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business
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the time when they start out now they
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come here and uh
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10 uh what is that 10 something
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people got 10
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10 something come coming about that 20
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years
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10 bylaws or 10 10 something you know
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then they come with the civil rights
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because
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they made some mistake after that their
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civil uh their civilized and realized
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that uh
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what the first world war and second war
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one vietnam war
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and they the civil rights this civil
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rights which i have to speak about massa
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but
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i have to teach you what civil rights
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and if i'm wrong why then
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i have to i shouldn't speak about civil
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rights
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because this civilization in europe
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they had that color over there but the
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but the uh when they come over here
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where
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they said the government of the people
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body people for the people why
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well that's what is that
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that good stuff is over there but uh
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they brought that they invite that
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immigration law so now we have the ghost
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the best of us and they shouldn't
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that i head over through the radio that
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uh
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about some million dollars worth of
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stuff in
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gone or swallowed or ruined and wouldn't
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need
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and compared to that property
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and well i bought the lives of the
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indians which went with
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more millions
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so that's though so so things like this
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we have to make a good interpretation
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and
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have more time then if i have to review
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my teamworks and filming we have to
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fly to new york and part time they have
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to rest and
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eat and then have to check on
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or maybe tonight we have to interview uh
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uh see you if there's any words at which
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i should connect get that
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cut off and change it a little bit
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so the people will understand but
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what what we have stricken by me
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maybe we may not or we may forgot about
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the
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sound or the word we have to uh design
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of uh
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one who will have to interpret this
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thing to the people
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so that's all come we never had a chance
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with it but
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uh more and more white people
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there are just like a different tribes
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like we have here
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we had more different types in the
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sweaters out of our
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some of the tribes from this hemisphere
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there's about eight eight of them in the
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sweat lots
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and and uh i think we can have the
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quite quite one in there
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and uh now
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i ask you what time you belong in in
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your race
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called irish inspired you and you hate
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to say jew
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because in that german nation they don't
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like the jews or they say
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martin no i know there's they're at the
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same rate
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but what is what what is the reason why
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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you