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News Footage Came On The Tv During Dinner Of Bloody Bodies Coming Back From Battle In Vietnam, Or The Race Riots In The South, People Getting Hosed In Selma, Alabama, Or The Biafra War, Where I Got My Name. In My Household, It Was Explained And Discussed With The Children, As A Way Of Educating Us From When We First Started Grade School Why Racism And War Were Wrong, What This All Really Means.

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Jello Biafra

News Footage Came On The Tv During Dinner Of Bloody Bodies Coming Back From Battle In Vietnam, Or The Race Riots In The South, People Getting Hosed In Selma, Alabama, Or The Biafra War, Where I Got My Name. In My Household, It Was Explained And Discussed With The Children, As A Way Of Educating Us From When We First Started Grade School Why Racism And War Were Wrong, What This All Really Means.

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