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How is TIKTOK healthy for young people? Wow!

I want share a few videos of young adults on TIKTOK saying they have no culture as Americans

I have to ask the parents… what are you teaching your babies?

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They got immigrants leading our young children from their home here
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🔴HISTORY OF US MILITARY CADENCES started by BLACK AMERICANS

Every fiber and to the core the USA military was heavily influenced by colored troops. From the Buffalo soliders to the inception of Memorial Day it all stems from Black Americans.

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The start of cadence calling in the military is credited to Pvt. Willie Duckworth who raised by his sharecropper grandparents in Jim Crow Georgia.

Duckworth would "chant to build up the spirits of his weary comrades” during WWII

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“Pvt. Willie Duckworth was a young soldier at Fort Slocum, New York in May, 1944, whose unit was dragging their feet during a march. To pep his brothers up, he began calling a chant to hep the men keep in step and to give them more energy.”

Listen to his infamous cadence:
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