Fritz The Cat Page #5

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You know it'd be best, baby

You can sing like that.

Little coquette, I love you

Sing, 'cause I want to...

if I get tired, I quit.

But you don't want to sing.

I want to sing, man.

I'm good.

You sing as good as you want.

If I get tired, I quit.

I went to school in Oakland...

and I had quite a few white-type

of school kids with me.

I'm forty-nine.

At that time, I had white kids

going to school with me.

I would have peanut butter.

I don't want it...

but I ate so much when

my mother gave it to me.

With apple butter.

I got two cans of it now.

That I don't eat because...

whitey was eating

ham sandwiches...

and I was eating

peanut butter sandwiches.

Sandwiches!

I got to get out of this town

for some Southern times.

Let me out of here.

That's right.

Suck! The bus only cost

$ to New York.

I say, "l ain't made

$ in two weeks."

Got air to live.

Riding a ship

coming out of Pearl Harbor.

And all my white friends...

then we drank water

out of the ditches.

If I had a K-ration,

I gave them some of it.

And...

I would ride this bus.

I couldn't sit with my friend

on this bus at Houston, Texas.

I had to ride

at the back end of this bus.

I'm about to get hot now.

As a matter of fact...

you couldn't even go no place

down South riding a bus.

Couldn't even get a soda...

walk in there

and get you a sandwich.

I don't give a damn

about who's racist.

I just want equality.

Be equal with the next guy,

because I'm paying my taxes.

That's a different thing now.

I'm a working man,

and I'm paying my taxes.

The money is what's happening.

See what I mean?

It all counts...

when is what's happening.

I'm talking about...

If you want

to be revolutionary...

you get some bread first,

and then you can talk trash.

Whitey blind us with religion.

If you fight

violence with violence...

like the late Malcolm did,

you'll get some results.

Right.

Because before

this rioting and sh*t...

you didn't have

no Head Start programs for kids.

You didn't have sh*t!

Really.

You didn't have

a goddamn thing.

Got you down in Harlem

selling horsemeat.

You know,

if one of them motherfuckers...

down and out selling

horsemeat, they dead.

Another civil war.

Civil war.

And I'm gonna be

standing back...

"Get 'em, baby!"

Hey, man, you in a bag?

Yeah, that's it.

I'm in a bag.

Just don't lose

your coolness, cat...

I mean,

don't lose your coolness.

Easy for you to talk.

You're a crow.

I wish I was a crow.

If I was a crow,

I'd fly away, man.

I'd fly away from

this miserable town for good.

You think being a crow

is a big motherfucking ball?

All you cats the same, man.

You don't know where it is.

There's nobody to tell you

where it's at.

And you come up here,

try to find out where it's at...

but you got to be up here, man,

to find out what's happening.

I know it isn't a ball, man.

I studied the race problems.

I know.

You don't know nothing

about the race problem.

Got to be a crow to know

about the race problem.

You know what I mean?

Do you dig where I'm at?

You know what I'm talking about?

Man, this thing affects me

very deeply, fella.

As a cat, I have

a considerable guilt complex...

because my kind have always

brought suffering on your kind.

Yes, indeed, my soul

is tortured and tormented...

by this racial crisis.

No sh*t?

I kid you not, man.

Sometimes I really get

hung up about it.

You know, uptight.

-Strung out.

-ln a bag?

Yeah, in a bag!

I'm gonna buy you a drink, cat.

Just 'cause I think

you got coolness.

Great.

Hey, boy, can I have a drink?

Oh, man!

Hey, Duke!

Hey, Duke!

They's blowing pot like mad

up in Mildred's pad!

I'm on my way, man.

Hey, cat, how would you

like to bug out now?

By God, man!

I'm gonna bug out!

Did he say bug out, baby?

Go ahead, baby, bug out.

Ain't no bug out.

-What kind of sh*t is that?

-lt's a bug out to him.

-lt's some kind of dance.

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