Word: nigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Helms tells a story from his childhood. "About the only licking I remember my father giving me was when he overheard me calling a little black boy with whom I was playing a 'nigger.' He told me, 'It wasn't anything you did that made you white, wasn't anything he did that made him black,' and I was never to use that word again." It was no defense, said Helms, that the boy had called him a "white cracker...
Kilson, who teaches a course on ethnicity in American society, says he often uses the derogatory language to which minorities have traditionally been subjected as a way of making his point in the classroom. "I will use that language--wop or dago or nigger or kike--to make the point," he says. "Language that might shock the pedagogical discourse about the issue...
...Four days later the onetime cheerleader was found in a daze, crawling into a garbage bag in the backyard of her family's former apartment complex. Her hair was crudely cropped, her body smeared with dog feces, her chest inscribed in charcoal with the letters KKK and the word NIGGER. At the hospital, a black policeman asked Brawley, "Who did it?" She reached for his badge and scrawled on a piece of paper, "white...
...capitol in Montgomery. For black Alabamans, however, that bit of pre-emancipation nostalgia is not an endearing sight. Last week, Representative Thomas Reed led 13 other black legislators in an attempt to scale the capitol dome and strike the rebel colors. Before a crowd of 2,000, some shouting "Nigger go home!," state troopers arrested the group for trespass. Later, the Alabama house, voting 67 to 17 along racial lines, defeated a measure to remove the flag...
...Massachusetts. Their makeshift uniform makes them recognizable everywhere: shaved heads and garish tattoos, flight jackets, black English work boots -- and a California touch, Fred Perry tennis shirts. Skinhead culture seems to spread through racist rock music. Tapes and records by white- power rock groups feature songs such as Nigger, Nigger and Prisoner of Peace, the musical saga of Rudolf Hess. One group is called the Final Solution...