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Number23

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25. Good point, Mr. Dixon

Thu Apr 5, 2012, 09:16 PM

Apr 2012

my very own country is the only one that looks down on me, SMH.

Lots of black folks don't even feel qualified to call ourselves "Americans" until we venture somewhere else and realize that's what the rest of the world sees us as.

In the States, you're a black guy or gal. In many other places, you are an American first.

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