Word: niggered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bitterness is the black perception that America's newest citizens are embracing one of its oldest traits, racial prejudice. Comedian Richard Pryor does a routine depicting a group of Indochinese boat people taking part in their first citizenship class. Lesson No. 1: the correct pronunciation of the word nigger...
...Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This year, the book's centenary, has brought several Huck Finn stage productions. It has also brought a renewed outcry from some who want the novel barred from school libraries. The book is racist, say these critics, who note that it repeatedly uses the word nigger and that it distresses young black students. Last week defenders of Huck as a satire of racism were bolstered by news that Twain, a.k.a. Samuel Clemens, had recorded his views of black and white in a private letter. He had been asked to support the education of Warner T. McGuinn...
...dark blue uniforms advanced, officers swung their clubs. The marchers retreated under the assault, many falling. The troopers, joined eagerly by Clark's redneck posse, pushed on amid clouds of tear gas. Charging on horseback, someof the men swung bullwhips at the fallen and fleeing marchers. "O.K., nigger," yelled one horseman as he flailed his whip at a woman. "You wanted to march. Now march...
...film reflects life, it can also help shape it. Actor Paul Winfield (Sounder, White Dog) recalls growing up in Seattle in the 1940s. "All the blacks would sit in the movie theater balcony," he says. "Nigger heaven, they used to call it. Then one night we saw Stanley Kramer's Home of the Brave, the first picture we'd seen in which a black was not a Stepin Fetchit, and we resolved never to sit in the balcony again...
...bunch of mean muthas break down doors, dismantle fire escapes, throw people off balconies-and these are the good guys. They are the drivers for the D.C. Cab Co. One black dude (Charlie Barnett) gets scared and screams, "I'm goin' to nigger heaven!" Then there's the amazing Mr. T, who drives a cab with gold grillework and gives inspirational speeches from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. "You've got animal magnetism!" shouts the wife of the fleet's owner (Max Gail), a hippie Viet vet who enforces discipline with...