Word: nigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teachers thought Paul "the most remarkable boy I have ever taught, a perfect prince. Still, I can't forget that he is a Negro." Neither could the college football players who reviled him, or the secretary who warned the young law student, "I never take dictation from a nigger...
Equality means understanding that the use of the words "faggot," "dyke" or "queer" as derogatory terms in casual coversation is just as offensive as the use of "nigger" or "kike...
...most widely reported incident last spring, a non-student disk jockey was banned from the student-run radio station after he played "Run, Nigger, Run" during a series on old Bluegrass and Country & Western songs, Charney said...
...missing." FBI agents Ward (Dafoe) and Anderson (Hackman) know otherwise. They might be from two different colleges -- say, Harvard and Hard Knocks. But they are both feds in a bad town, and they know what smells. The sheriff, for one. "You down here to help us solve our nigger problem?" he asks agreeably. No. They are there to wash some soiled linen: the bloodstained sheets of the local Klansmen, who almost certainly executed the young men for the crime of idealism...
...truth is that Hoover loathed blacks and detested their leaders, and so did many of his men. According to an agent quoted by Hoover's biographer Richard Gid Powers, during the early '60s "in about 90% of the situations in which bureau personnel referred to Negroes, the word 'nigger' was used." Until 1962 there were only five black FBI agents: Hoover's chauffeurs, houseboy and messenger. During the period dealt with in Burning, Hoover's bureau was indeed engaged in a lawless campaign against an enemy. But its target was Martin Luther King Jr. It began with wiretaps and buggings...