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That was a big deal around that town.
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My daddy hated that mule.
:20:06
His friends kidded him that they saw
Monroe ploughin' with his new mule...
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...and Monroe was gonna rent
another field now that he had a mule.
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One morning that mule
just showed up dead.
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They poisoned the water.
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After that there was never any mention
about that mule around my daddy.
:20:34
One time we were drivin' past
Monroe's place and we saw it was empty.
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He'd just packed up and left, I guess.
Gone up North or somethin'.
:20:45
I looked over at my daddy's face...
:20:50
...and I knew he'd done it.
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And he saw that I knew.
:20:54
He was ashamed.
:20:57
I guess he was ashamed.
:21:01
He looked at me and he said...
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..."If you ain't better than a nigger,
son, who are you better than?"
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Do you think that's an excuse?
:21:12
No, it's not an excuse.
It's just a story about my daddy.
:21:20
Where does that leave you?
:21:23
With an old man who was so full of hate...
:21:25
...that he didn't know that
bein' poor was what was killin' him.
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Get the light! Get the light!
:21:42
You all right?
:21:53
I guess they know we're here.