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January 16, 2012 at 3:34pm
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We beg your pardon America. We beg your pardon once again. We find out that 7 out of ten black men in jail. And most of the men behind bars are black. 7 out of every ten black men never went to the ninth grade. They didn¹t have fifty dollars and never had a hundred for a month when they went to jail. So the poor and ignorant go to jail while the rich go to San Clemente. We beg your pardon America because we understand much more deeper than what we understood before. We don¹t want to take the pardon back. We want you to issue some more pardons. Pardon brother Frank Willis the (Black) Watergate security guard. He was only doing his job.

— Gil Scott- Heron - I Beg Your Pardon America Lyrics

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