Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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These men are black. As you might have noticed, they are also very white. What happened, what’s going on, just, why? The short answer is that these guys from Poland decided to fight in one of the ugliest wars of all time for the sake of Haitian independence and were awarded with honorary blackness, but I think that raises more questions than it answers, so let’s see if we can find a little more context.

Music (in order of first appearance):
Remstunes - A Klezmer Melancholy
Franciszek Scigalski - Symphony in D Major
Mr B. Music Studio - Funny Polka
Tchaikovsky - Waltz of the Flowers
Avocado Sound - Funeral March
Mr. B Music Studio - Carnival Waltz Pierrot (Underscore)
Grooving Gecko - Sad Violin
Vincent Vega - Spooly
Alec Koff - Creepy
Wormwood Music - Caribbean Island
Studio Kolomna - March
Marscott Music - Luminous Heartbeat
R-Production - French Waltz
Luca Francini - Hard Trance Club 2000
Gold Tiger - Ragtime
Blacksmith - Piano Ragtime