Play 304: Isn’t It Ironic?

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Know what’s really ironic?

1
What?

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You know Liberia?

1
Yeah.

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And how it was made up of slaves from here that went back to African and stuff.

1
Yeah.

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Well you know what those slaves did as soon as they got back?

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What?

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Ruled over the native Africans and treated them terribly.

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That is ironic.

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And sad.

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Yeah.

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Always seems to happen that way.

1
Yeah.

2
Like the pilgrims, they came here to escape persecution and oppression, and what did they do when the got here? They oppressed the hell out of everyone.

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It’s pretty fucked up.

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Yeah.

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Same stuff keeps happening again and again.

1
Yeah.

(Beat.)

Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.

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I guess no one knows it.

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Sure seems that way.

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Indeed.

(Blackout.)