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...This comes from a Charles Mingus track called “Fables of Faubus”, written in 1959, a protest against the governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, who opposed racial integration in public schools....
...Elsewhere he reflects that real slavery had to have been bad enough “for someone to convince themselves that Canada wasn’t that far away”....
...Mingus’s good fortune didn’t last. In 1966 he was evicted from his Manhattan studio, and faded from the scene....
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