Word: nigger
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Playing Mudbone, the levee-tender, or Oilwell, the "dangerous nigger" who fights the cops, he lets the humor build up gradually as the audience understands the character he is impersonating-or is possessed by. "What Lily and I do transcends stand-up comedy crap," he boasts. "We make it theater. We involve the audience in truth because everything we do is real. Both of us are possessed when we are onstage. Yes, man, I'm talking literally. Possession...
When he talks about whites, Pryor possessed by Richard Pryor-can be almost as lethal as "Big Daddy." In the U.S., he says, "they give niggers time as if they were giving lunch. You go [to court] looking for justice, and that's just what you find -just us." On his album Bicentennial Nigger he says, "We're celebrating 200 years of white folks kicking ass... You all probably have forgotten about it. Well, I ain't never gonna forget...
...came up with a somewhat different, although not conflicting motivation after probing Ray's relatives and prison associates for seven years. He found fellow convicts who described Ray as a racist. They claimed Ray had often talked in prison about getting the man whom Ray called "the big nigger." To McMillan, Ray may have been a bumbler as a thief, but he grew shrewd in the ways of prison life and earned much money dealing in drugs and other contraband behind the walls. McMillan claims Ray sent about $6,500 out of prison from such earnings-and that this...
...students originally protested the reading aloud in class of a story using the world "nigger" to describe a maid...
...seventh-grade English teacher. All my students watched Roots. The effect on them was not a step toward interracial unity. They were confused and upset, and reacted by calling one another "Masser" and "Nigger...