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I Wanna Be Black

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I Wanna Be Black

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I wanna be black

Have natural rhythm

Shoot twenty feet of jism, too

And fuck up jews

I wanna be black

I wanna be a panther

Have a girlfriend named samantha

And have a stable of foxy whores

Oh i wanna be black

I don't wanna be a fucked up, middle class,

College student anymore

I just want to have a stable of foxy little whores

Yeah, yeah i wanna be black

I wanna be black

I wanna be like martin luther king

And get myself shot in spring

And lead a whole generation too

And fucked up the jews

I wanna be black, i wanna be like malcolm x

And cast a hex over president kennedy's tomb

And have a big prick, too

I don't wanna be a fucked up, middle class,

College student anymore

I just want to have a stable of foxy little whores

Yeah, yeah i wanna be black

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