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Please come, Miss French!
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I told him to stop bothering me!
I told him! I did!
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Didn't I? Didn't I tell him?
I told him!
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These commencement exercises
of the class of '77...
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...which we had to give ourselves...
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...are dedicated to Benjamin Banneker:
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Free man, irrigation farmer...
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...weather predictor,
author of an almanac...
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...builder of the first
American-made clock...
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...and chief surveyor
of the city of Washington, D.C...
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...our nation's capital.
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Our opening pageant...
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...presented by Barbara Hanley
and Percy Watkins...
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...exhibited a tableau in pantomime,
you understand?
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Shut up, Gerald!
See, I told you not to let him do it.
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-He always got to be a star.
-Quiet, y'all.
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-Go ahead, Gerald.
-That's all.
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I'd just ask our guests
to please excuse my colleagues...
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...and let your patience overcome
the nausea and disgust...
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...at the ignorance which is,
indeed, the curse of our people.
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-Get back in line, son!
-Why would do you wanna do that?
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The next section
of our program is awards. Willie?
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The recipient of the
class gift award is Miss French.