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Incident Countee Cullen

Once riding in old Baltimore, Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,  I saw a Baltimorean  Keep looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger,  And so I smiled, but he poked out  His tongue, and called me "Nigger." I saw the whole of Baltimore From May until December;  f all the things that happened there  That's all that I remember. Lewis, David L. //The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader//. New York: Penguin, 1995. Print.

For hundreds of years different types of ignorance have plagued our nation. Not only have Americans in our past dehumanized African Americans, they have also made Native Americans out to

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