Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations.

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However, for the star value they bring their franchise as a fixed cost, they are highly underpaid.

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Is a star as solid as he is really the right choice to play a ghostly drifter of no fixed abode?

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