“Hey, you know something people?
I'm not black,
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white.”

—  Frank Zappa

"Trouble Every Day".
Freak Out! (1966)
Variant: Hey, you know something people? I'm not black, but there's a whole lots a times I wish I could say I'm not white.

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