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Dot Dot Dit Dit Dot Dot Dash or Damned If I Know(diik)

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During the turbulent times of the 1960's and 70's there was on the seen a prophet, poet, lyricist, musician and just plain ole gifted artist known as Gil Scott-Heron. He coined a new phrase or saying and called it, "Dot Dot Dit Dit Dot Dot Dash or "Damned If I know(diik)". The reason this phrase was necessary was because so many things were going on during those times that no one really had an answer for or could get a handle on just "why" this or that thing was happening.  For instance, why was Martin Luther King killed? - (diik) or why was Malcolm X assassinated? - (diik), or what about the state ordered massacre at Attica State Prison? -(diik), or the innocent students gunned down by the government at Kent State University? - (diik), or the bomb dropped on the house of the Move Organization, also ordered by the city government? - (diik).   Then, as well as now, we are confronted on a daily basis with more and more revelations that make us u