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Can you turn on the house lights,
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and could the waiters and waitresses
just stop serving for a second?
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And turn off the spot.
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Now what did he say?
''Are there any niggers here tonight?''
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There's one nigger here.
l see him back there working.
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Let's see. There's two niggers.
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And between those two niggers
sits a kike.
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And there's another kike.
That's two kikes and three niggers.
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And there's a spic, right? Hm?
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There's another spic.
1:00:35
Ooh, there's a wop. There's a Polack.
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And then, oh, a couple of greaseballs.
There's three lace-curtain lrish Micks.
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And there's one hip, thick,
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hunky, funky boogie.
1:00:50
Boogie, boogie. Mm-mm.
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l got three kikes. Do l hear five kikes?
l got five kikes. Do l hear six spics?
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Six spics. Do l hear seven niggers?
l got seven niggers. Sold American!
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l'll pass with seven niggers, six spics,
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five Micks, four kikes,
three guineas, and one wop.
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You almost punched me out, didn't ya?
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l was trying to make a point,
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that it's the suppression of the word
that gives it the power,
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the violence, the viciousness.
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Dig. lf President Kennedy would
just go on television and say
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''l'd like to introduce you
to all the niggers in my cabinet.''
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And if he'd just say ''nigger, nigger''
to every nigger he saw,
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''Boogie, boogie, boogie,
nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger,''
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till it didn't mean anything any more!
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Then you'd never be able
to make a black kid cry
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because somebody called him
a nigger in school.
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l am of Semitic background. l'm Jewish.
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Now, a Jew, dictionary-style,
is one who is descended
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from one of the tribes of Judea
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or one who is regarded
to have descended from them.