Word: nigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Purdue last month, a black academic counselor, Irene Johnson, had a graffito -- DEATH NIGGER -- scratched on her office door; a few weeks earlier in front of the Black Cultural Center, a crude wooden cross was found doused with fuel that remained unlighted when whoever put it there fled...
...poverty level growing up in San Diego has been exaggerated -- Conner's father was a Convair engineer who dabbled in commercial fishing -- but by yachting standards Dennis qualified as a foundling. Filthy terms like "boat nigger" seem to come easily to these folks' gooey white lips, and Conner uses that phrase to describe his beginnings. The way "some kids hang around pool halls," Conner says he hung around the marinas begging rides. At 44 he still likes to refer to sailing as a "good way to hang out." A junior membership was finally extended by the San Diego Yacht Club...
...liberal Yankee" views quickly gave me the reputation in high school of being a "nigger-lover." Many of my high school classmates were outraged when I refused to agree with them that Blacks are inferior to whites. I came up to school here in the cold North hoping to find something different. Instead, I have found a community often uncommitted to change, or at least unaware that it needs to change...
...important" fiction. People ask me, "When are you going to write something serious?" A question like that always hurts. They don't understand it's like walking up to somebody and saying how does it feel to be a nigger? My answer is that I'm as serious as I can be every time I sit down at a typewriter...
...should have to go through what she did. Still, this does not excuse Ms. Martin from her prejudicial beliefs nor her use of the pejorative "bum" to describe one of the homeless men. Similarly, an asault by a Black man would not excuse the use of the term "nigger" nor would an assault by any other member of a minority group excuse the use of a prejudicial term. Throughout the letter, Ms. Martin demonstrates a prejudice against the homeless as being violent, dangerous, and generally malicious people that is evident in her argument...