Word: nigger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with bad grades a year later. Without a student deferment, he was conscripted into the South African Defense Force, where he found upholding the apartheid regime loathsome. Once, after he took the side of a black mess-hall waiter, some Afrikaans-speaking soldiers called him a kaffir-boetie ("nigger lover") and beat him up. In 1980 Carter went absent without leave, rode a motorcycle to Durban and, calling himself David, became a disk jockey. He longed to see his family but felt too ashamed to return. One day after he lost his job, he swallowed scores of sleeping pills, pain...
...standing on the steps of a freshman dorm when he was "accosted by some five or six riot police holding 'Nigger sticks'...poised and raised for the downward swing," he says...
...John D. Williams Jr., executive director of the National Scrabble Association, upon hearing that up to 100 offensive words will be eliminated from the Official Scrabble Dictionary. The Dictionary currently includes words like," "darkie," "nigger," "spic" and "lezzie...
...standing on the steps of a freshman dorm when he was "accosted by some five or six riot police holding 'Nigger sticks'...poised and raised for the downward swing," he says...
...account has been corroborated by another juror, Patricia LeMay. In an affidavit, LeMay, who is white, also charged that racism played a large part in the deliberations. According to LeMay, comments by other jurors included "the nigger admitted he did it" and "he should...