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don cherry the trumpet player? or the hockey coach? or another don cherry?
irate:
if you understand that the best thing about america is the tradition of dissent, then there is nothing either hackneyed or damaging about it.
unless you dislike that tradition for some reason, in which case your objection can be reduced to an aesthetic one.
lincoln is easier to endorse as the finest american if you do not actually read his speeches--check out the debates with john calhoun over the question of slavery (0if you have not) and see if you still think lincoln was the best the americans have done.
i would take any of the folk on my list over him in a minute.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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