Word: niggered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music drama," says conductor John McGlinn, 35, whose passion for the score drove him to record the Mississippi riverboat musical in its complete 1927 version. McGlinn restored the overture, reinstating three important ensemble numbers and, most controversially, insisting on Hammerstein's original dialogue, which includes use of the word nigger. The result is a Show Boat wiped clean of the sentimental and sanitized patina it had acquired over the years. In its place stands a raw, powerful and angry work whose seriousness of purpose and lofty artistic aspirations are umistakable...
...been easy. "There is not a day that I haven't gone through some kind of hell," says Scott. "Practically every day, someone calls me a nigger." He sits in his modest apartment in a suburb called Justice, about four miles southwest of Cicero, ironing his five-year-old son's jeans for school. On the wall hangs a prayer: "Lord, help me to realize that nothing can happen today that you and I can't handle." Scott's wife D'Andrea tries to comfort him after each racial incident by saying, "Don't worry about it, that person...
Scott has problems both in the station and on the streets. One of his superior officers has called him a "stupid nigger" in front of fellow officers. On one occasion the officer asked someone he was arresting, "Do you want this nigger to see you crying?" Sometimes citizens who call for help will rebuff Scott and ask for a white officer -- a request the department denies...
...hopeful. "I am slowly making some headway with the people in the community," he says. People on the street are beginning to call him "Officer Scott." A number of fellow officers have invited him and his wife home to dinner. Even the officer who once called him a "nigger" is now supportive. Scott's superior, Zalas, says both Cicero and Scott are maturing. "He's going to grow into a fine officer," he says. Scott still does not want to live in Cicero -- at least not so long as he considers his family in peril. But he is determined...
...Sleds are equally determined. When they moved into their $250-a-month apartment in Melrose Park, they were welcomed by Donna Wilbur, a widow who lives downstairs with her teenage son. But two days later, a car nearly knocked the Sleds' 14-year-old nephew off his bike. "Nigger, what are you doing around here?" the driver shouted. A week later, two wooden fence posts crashed through Wilbur's dining room window, the penalty for welcoming the Sleds to the neighborhood. "It doesn't seem like America with people acting like this," she says...