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🗓️ 26 December 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Ever heard about “Jingle Bells”’s more sinister history? Or the triumph of the first Black mall Santa? Roy Wood, Jr. has the scoop in this special Christmas CP Time.
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0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
0:02.8 | BAM! |
0:05.7 | CHEERING AND APPLAUSE |
0:14.8 | Welcome to CP Time, the only show that's for the culture. |
0:19.5 | Today, we discuss black people |
0:22.1 | and the joyful festive holiday of Christmas. |
0:26.0 | So let's start with slavery. |
0:29.2 | Because remember, black people |
0:31.1 | want celebrating Christmas before that. |
0:33.7 | None of us want the boat ride over here going |
0:35.6 | fall all all all all all, but the holes. |
0:38.4 | But once they were in America, |
0:40.2 | many slaves began to see Christmas |
0:42.6 | for the blessed and dead it was. |
0:45.1 | A chance to escape by their owners were away for the holidays. |
0:48.6 | The great abolitionist Harriet Tubman even used Christmas |
0:52.0 | to free her three brothers, which may sound good to you. |
0:56.0 | But if I let my sister free me around Christmas, |
0:58.5 | I'd never hear the end of it. |
1:00.2 | Every year should be like, oh, thank you so much for the slippers. |
1:03.9 | This almost as good as the gift I got you last year. |
1:06.8 | Not shackles. |
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