"My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names."

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"My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names."

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"One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?"

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