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"ref": "2007, Charles Euchner, Little League, Big Dreams",
"text": "When he gets to third, Fe'ao is excited. He sees Curaçao's thir baseman, Denjerick Virginie, starting at him as he slaps his hands together. \"What you looking at, popolo?\" he barks.",
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"ref": "2010, Dave Burgess, A Tale of Two Brothers, page 176",
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"ref": "2014, Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More",
"text": "There was a racial order that existed even in this group of tweens. They teased that Chad and I were popolo, Hawaiian slang for black people. Popolo are shiny berries that grow in clusters in the islands and are so black that they shine purple on branches.",
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"ref": "2007, Charles Euchner, Little League, Big Dreams",
"text": "When he gets to third, Fe'ao is excited. He sees Curaçao's thir baseman, Denjerick Virginie, starting at him as he slaps his hands together. \"What you looking at, popolo?\" he barks.",
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"ref": "2010, Dave Burgess, A Tale of Two Brothers, page 176",
"text": "I think that most people in Hawaii agree with my mother-in-law's view of Barry as a good Hawaiian boy; a popolo Hawaiian boy, but a Hawaiian boy nonetheless.",
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},
{
"ref": "2014, Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More",
"text": "There was a racial order that existed even in this group of tweens. They teased that Chad and I were popolo, Hawaiian slang for black people. Popolo are shiny berries that grow in clusters in the islands and are so black that they shine purple on branches.",
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