Music: Black Spectacle

In the beginning God created man and set him in the realm of nature. . . . And Africa, most rich, most terrible, through the slow centuries shaped her race, and the long struggle made the African. . . . God gave to the African a special gift, and made him wise in the magical rhythms of the day and the night. . . . And the African carried into his long captivity a pulse as of strong hearts beating. . . .

Almost as white as...

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