Word: nigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reginald Gilliam, vice chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, on perceptions of black success: "Your degrees, your clerkships, your previous positions that often predate the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, all may be explained away by 'EEO,' a modern-day acronym for nigger...
Mason, 42, grew up near Paducah, Ky., and she gets the details of transition right. "Who bought these 'toes'?" says one senior citizen. "He would no longer say 'nigger toes,' the old name for the chocolate-covered creams." Unlike some writers who have moved up, Mason does not bury her past in ironic disdain. A woman who identifies a long, low dog as a "datsun" gets the same neighborly attention as a pastor's wife who plays electronic games rather than attend one more workshop like Christian "marriage enhancement." In true short-story tradition...
...student, Randy Reeves, claimed that she had only stopped him because he was Black and also claimed that Podryhula called him a "nigger...
...FIRST THING you heard about Elvis Costello was that he was the "angry young man" of the British new wave. Probably the second was that in a drunken stupor he once got in an argument with members of the Steven Stills Band and called Ray Charles "a blind, ignorant nigger" in a misbegotten effort to outrage his adversaries. Most recently, if you've been paying close attention, you hear that E.C. has recently "matured and has metamorphosed into the the Cole Porter of the 80s," has created the "new Seargent Pepper" with his new album, Imperial Bedroom, and is generally...
...Preach, nigger, preach!" Out of the darkness the voice rose-young, proud, urgent, female and black. It was an exhortation that might have been addressed to the spellbinding pastor of a Harlem storefront church, or to a Black Panther stopping pedestrian traffic on a street corner in Oakland, or to an ardent buck accelerating into passion on an apartment-house roof in Atlanta. As it happens, the voice came from the back of a theater auditorium in Long Beach, Calif. It was shouted to the man onstage, who could lay claim to being all those people: minister to the oppressed...