THE BOOK OF DAMN
YANKEES
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE BOOK OF MANIFEST DESTINY
The Yanks have to deal with some stuff
Chapter 150
Kennedy noticed that negroes weren’t completely happy,
2Because about a million of them marched to Washington,
3aAnd sat right out there in public and everything,
4To hear a preacher named bMartin Luther King tell them that he had a dream,
5A dream about equality,
6Which meant that it was time for negroes to stand up and demand their rights,
7Nonviolently,
8cBecause it’s better that way,
9dAnd besides, it’s never smart to make the Yanks mad by hurting some of them,
10Which everyone knew,
11By now.
12And so Kennedy helped out all he could,
13By passing a law in Congress that made negroes equal,
14So that they could be called black people,
15Instead of negroes,
16Because white people were called white people,
17Unless they were called Caucasians,
18Which they weren’t,
19Or else why would it matter what you called black people,
20As long as you didn’t call them the usual Yank names,
21Such as nigger,
22And spade,
23And coon,
24And tar baby,
25And spook,
26And spear chucker,
27And colored,
28And all the other names that Yanks think of first but never use in public anymore because they might sound racist or something,
29For some reason.
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