If you an' yo' folks likes me an' my folks,
Like me an' my folks likes you an' yo' folks;
You's never seed folks since folks 'as been folks,
Like you an' yo' folks like me an' my folks.
Thomas W. Talley's Negro Folk Rhymes (Wise or Otherwise) (1922)
I propose that this is and always has been, a White-American problem.
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