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...fallen civil rights workers. Its soul was the soul of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Terrell County. Georgia, one of many Negro churches burned or bombed to the ground. Its mentality was that of sheriff James Clark and other faceless, mindless segregationist law enforcers singlehandedly determined to "keep nigger in his place." And its heart was Selma, Alabama--25,000 proud people marching, hands clasped, and with full throats, chanting old Negro spirituals, on their way to the state capital in a voter registration drive...
...haunts Jadine for months when she spits at her with disdain. The spirits of the past strike hardest with the discovery of an untamed, uneducated filthy young man named Son who has been hiding in the Street's house for days. At first he is an ugly rastaman, a "nigger in the woodpile" whose lack of breeding and cleanliness offend her and the rest of the family. All except Valerian, who invites him to stay-and with one gesture opens the door to legends and tales that will haunt the rest of the plot...
...interesting quality of this work is that the author sounds like she loves her characters. They are a part of American folklore, the general culture and the Black one, a link which Morrison insists on. Son is placed in the legion of "undocumented men" like Huck Finn, Nigger Jim, Caliban, Staggerice and John Henry. Jadine becomes the flip side of a stereotype portraying light-skinned, long haired Black women. Her-Blackness and her womanhood are two gifts of beauty and richness to Morrison. Black women give birth to legends; their ghosts live forever as long as skins bear traces...
...rape me and they'll feed you to the alligators. Count on it, nigger. You good as dead right...
...learn about this problem while they hang out. Here at Harvard, factions can confront each other on an intellectual basis, but on the Cambridge streets, people have to take sides. Dark End catches a group of these teenagers before they've learned to call each other "white bitch" and "nigger". When the film opens, Billy and Donna and Marlene and Brian are playing baseball together, partying together and teasing each other. Not that they are innocent. They can freely indulge in the physical power they feel so keenly, but they have not yet matured to the experience of racial hatred...