Jungle Fever
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:21:02
Has Flipper told you about
his loving wife and daughter?

:21:06
Yes, he has.
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Um, excuse me.
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You think I don't
understand about the white woman...

:21:17
committing black adultery,
but I do.

:21:20
Now, Daddy,
no sermons, please.

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There was a lot of lynchings
in Willicoochee, Georgia...

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where I come from
when I was a boy.

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Willicoochee, Georgia!
What a name!

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Willicoochee.
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White man say to his woman:
"Baby, you are the flower...

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"of white Southern womanhood,
too holy and pure...

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"to be touched by any man,
including me.

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"I'm gonna put you
up on a pedestal...

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"so the whole world will
fall down and worship you.

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"And if any nigger
so much as look at you,

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I'll lynch his ass."
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She believed him,
thought she really was...

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holy and pure,
like the Virgin Mary.

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She let him put her
up on that pedestal.

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Meanwhile, the husband,
no sooner than the sun went down...

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down to the slave quarters
grabbin' up every piece...

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of black poontang
he could lay his hands on,

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then running to the gin mill
to brag about it.

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And that's how our blood
got diluted...

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mulattoes, quadroons,
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octoroons.
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I'm sure that most of those
high and mighty white ladies...

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felt abandoned.
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But they were so proud to be
white, and therefore superior,

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they kept their mouths shut
and their legs locked tight.

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But in the midnight hour,
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layin' there, alone,
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on the hot bed of lust,
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I'm sure they must've thought
what it would be like...

:22:52
to have one of them
big, black bucks...

:22:56
their husbands were
so desperately afraid of.


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