Word: cose
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...routine sounded like this: "Why, that dumb n-----....." Then the speaker would realize he was talking to someone (probably a Yankee), who might not be in harmony with going around saying "n-----." So the speaker might backpedal, with an unction of benevolence: "Uh, 'cose, you know, I don't mean nuthin' by that. (Squinting now into the middle distance, with a philosophical air; if outdoors, he might even spit speculatively.) "The way I figure, they'se white n------ as well as black...
...Cose they is. N------, you see, is a metaphysical concept rather than a racial designation, and as such, it partakes of the prestige of abstraction...
...certainly a creature of a Gannett system," said Newsweek contributing editor Ellis Cose. "But they do actually create some people who are very good...