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Thursday, February 17, 2005

A conversation with Nigger What

My name is Nigger What…I was born in 1918, and in 1930 I was with my dad. We were in the center of town. I was only 12 years old. My father tipped his hat to Miss Sally. Miss Sally came over and gave both of us hugs...This was in Savanna, Georgia. And then out of nowhere 6 white men rustled us out in to the fields and they started kicking my dad and then they started asking him a series of questions: " Nigger, what were you thinking?" "Nigger, what the hell were you doing to Miss Sally?" "Nigger, what are you going to do now?" and with that they lynched my dad right in front of me…

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