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Word: nigger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the week ended, everyone was shouting angrily at everyone else. Those teachers who crossed the picket lines in an effort to keep some 400 of the city's 900 schools limping along with skeleton staffs ran into a bitter barrage of invective. "Commies!" "Fascists!" "Nazi Lovers!" "Nigger Lovers!" shouted the highly confused strikers, many of them veterans of years of tortured teaching in the city's ghetto schools. Mayor John Lindsay, wearing a yarmulke, was jeered and insulted in a Brooklyn synagogue by a teacher-dominated audience as he tried to explain his stand on the strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: The Use and Misuse of Power | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...from round here, are ya?" A quiet no. Where you from boy?" I'm from California sir. "What choo doin' down here in our part of the country, boy?" Just travelling through sir. "How you like our niggers, boy? You ain't one of them nigger lovers, are ya now?" An inaudible reply. "Well ah'm sure relieved to hear that. We've got so sick of all these hippies and nigger lovers that come down here. Just makes you want to bash 'em and clean the town up--just like killin' the rats so's decent people can have...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Southern Schizophrenia: | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

...King filled me in on his philosophy of life, his Negro attendant put the cap on my gas tank and closed the hood. King saw the chance for a little show. "Now you watch that nigger over there. Watch what he does...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Southern Schizophrenia: | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

...nigger," he yelled out the door. "C'mon in here a minute." The man came. "Now you just stand here nigger. Look at this poor nigger. And all these nigger-lover bastards come down here and they want to hug these niggers and put 'em into white houses. I hate them damn nigger lovers. The only thing worse than a damn nigger is a goddamn bastard nigger-lover. Ought to be shot...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Southern Schizophrenia: | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

...damn nigger paper here." Terrified silence. "We're gettin' so sick of you nigger lovers." This was beginning to sound familiar. "Why don't you get out of our town--why don't you go back where you belong. We hate you so much. We want you to stay away. We don't want you and your white nigger friends comin' here." Just one line was missing from the ritual, and it came in a minute. "We're gettin' just about ready to kill us one of you nigger lovers. You think we should kill you?" No thank...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Southern Schizophrenia: | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

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