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And I'm Gene, can you think of any particularly memorable Black History Month celebrations?

Wait, what is this question?

Like when you were a kid, when you were like, oh, it's Black History Month.

We got to do stuff.

Not really.

I mean, you know, I went to all-black schools going up, you know what I mean? So like, same sort of back, you know, you went to up. Yeah, not really. I mean, you know, I went to all black schools going up, you know what I mean?

So, like, it was sort of, you know, you went to, yeah, you know what it is. Like, sometimes we have, like, extra history focused stuff on that month. But I feel like, especially in elementary school, we, that stuff was, like, just year-round. Anyway, but how about you? I think like I remember because growing up in Baltimore being you kind of inundated with black history.

Yeah, of course.

I really. I remember, because growing up in Baltimore being, you're kind of inundated with Black History.

Yeah, of course.

I remember going on a field trip into a church basement and there was like a woman sweeping by a fireplace.

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