Word: lettin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went through the interrogation a hundred times this summer. Sometimes I won, when I was a faceless white man, up to no ill. If I spiced my conversation with, "You sure know how to keep things in order down here" (translation: you ain't lettin' them niggers run around crazy like in the North), or if I chortled at the constant "nigger" jokes in the gas stations, I won. If I took pictures of "No Colored" signs, stirred up trouble in the wrong side of town, or stayed with black families, I lost...
...kept wonderin' out loud if we weren't goin' the wrong way. if we oughtn't to turn around. But we went up. finally, in a yellow, two-seat Piper Cub. The pilot kept me up there for half an hour, lettin' me take the stick and whip us through a few turns and glides. After that first ride, there wasn't any doubt what I was goin...