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=**Race**=

"Frieda was a long time with the milk, and gazed fondly at the solhouette of Shirley Temple's dimpled face. Frieda and she had a loving conversation about how cu-ute Shirley Temple was. I could'nt join them inh their adoration because I hated Shirley. Not because she was cute but because she danced with Bojangles, who was //my// friend, //my// uncle, //my// daddy, and who ought to have been soft-shoeing it and chuckling with me. Instead he was enjoying, sharing, giving lovely dance thing with one of those little white girls whose socks never slid down under their heels." (The Bluest Eye, 19) President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, speaking in 1935, praised Shirley: "During this Depression, when the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time, it is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents, an American can go to a movie, look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles." [|Picture]

It will readily be understood that there are but two alternatives for the future; the negroes and the whites must either wholly part or wholly mingle. (De Tocqueville, Democracy in Aemrica, 432)

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Words by Andy Razaf and Music by Thomas "Fats" Waller and Harry Brooks
 * (What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue**

Couples passin' two by two, While here am I, left high and dry, Black, and 'cause I'm black I'm blue. Browns and yellers, all have fellers, Gentlemen prefer them light, Wish I could fade, can't make the grade, Nothing but dark days in sight:
 * Verse:** Out in the street, shufflin' feet,

Pains in my head, Feel like old Ned. What did I do, to be so Black And Blue? No joys for me, No company, Even the mouse ran from my house, All my life through, I've been so Black And Blue.
 * Chous 1:** Cold, empty bed, Springs hard as lead,

I'm white inside, It don't help my case 'Cause I can't hide, what is on my face, oh! I'm so forlorn, Life's just a thorn, My heart is torn, Why was I born? What did I do, to be so Black And Blue?

'Cause you're black, Folks think you lack They laugh at you, And scorn you too, What did I do, to be so Black And Blue? When you are near, they laugh and sneer, Set you aside and you're denied, What did I do, to be so Black And Blue?

How sad I am, each day I feel worse, My mark of Ham seems to be a curse! How will it end? Ain't got a friend, My only sin Is my skin. What did I do, to be so Black And Blue?

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