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Word: niggerism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bars. No mediating agent stands between Hurricane's sense of injustice and the outside world. When as a boy a white drunk tried to rape a member of his gang, Rubin responded by slashing the man's head open. When Hurricane was in custody and a cop called him "nigger," it was a reflex to smash the man's face...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: To the Valley Below | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

There had been the time when Ray had thought there might be a bounty on King's head, and he said, in front of Curtis, about King, "You are my big one, and one day I will collect all that money on your ass, nigger, for you are my retirement plan." But as the months passed, Ray seemed to have given up caring about money, if he ever did consider it seriously, for he got so he would say, about King, "If I ever get to the streets, I am going to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: I'm Gonna Kill That Nigger King' | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...Jimmy] had something on his mind ... They were about to get down to a reckoning of the money that was coming to Jimmy [funds he had sent out of prison], when he suddenly said, "I'm gonna kill that nigger King. That's something that's been on my mind. That's something I've been working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: I'm Gonna Kill That Nigger King' | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...could, but he did not want to be in on that job ... [Jack's] reaction to Jimmy's news was one of unqualified pragmatism: "That's crazy! You can count me out of that deal. There ain't no money in killin' a nigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: I'm Gonna Kill That Nigger King' | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...jokes or small talk that day. He was excited and all worked up. What he said was, 'Jerry, tomorrow it will all be over. I might not see you and Jack for a while. But don't worry about me. I'll be all right. Big Nigger has had it!'" [King was killed at 6:01 p.m. that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: I'm Gonna Kill That Nigger King' | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

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