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"Mr. Lincoln, I've Decided to Trust You!" script, 1967
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22 1ST READER "Fine, you sound now like a man who wishes to run. However, what you spew is what we can't use. You see when a white man says race, he means white race...when Xeroxed Afro-Americans say race, they mean black race. Only the carotene of the yellow man allows him the virtue of saying race and meaning in so vague mystic way, the human race." MR. LINCOLN "I fought for the dignity of the whole human race." 1ST READER "Only because it was pragmatically expedient to do so to maintain the dominance of the white race. If this is what you mean by human race...then you've been successful." MR. LINCOLN "That's not so." (rising with the cane held high in his hand) 1ST READER (staring him down) "You are a sham Mr. Lincoln...like all men you are a sham of words. Your greatest gift was ambiguity and the lack of swift communications in the early 1800's. You never heard a playback of your words. Had there been a single tape recorder in the early 1800's you may not have become the man you were. (fumbling on his desk...for a book...thumbs through) Here read this. You said this in 1858." MR. LINCOLN (accepting the book) "Where?"
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22 1ST READER "Fine, you sound now like a man who wishes to run. However, what you spew is what we can't use. You see when a white man says race, he means white race...when Xeroxed Afro-Americans say race, they mean black race. Only the carotene of the yellow man allows him the virtue of saying race and meaning in so vague mystic way, the human race." MR. LINCOLN "I fought for the dignity of the whole human race." 1ST READER "Only because it was pragmatically expedient to do so to maintain the dominance of the white race. If this is what you mean by human race...then you've been successful." MR. LINCOLN "That's not so." (rising with the cane held high in his hand) 1ST READER (staring him down) "You are a sham Mr. Lincoln...like all men you are a sham of words. Your greatest gift was ambiguity and the lack of swift communications in the early 1800's. You never heard a playback of your words. Had there been a single tape recorder in the early 1800's you may not have become the man you were. (fumbling on his desk...for a book...thumbs through) Here read this. You said this in 1858." MR. LINCOLN (accepting the book) "Where?"
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