Word: niggerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...house and filling it up. We've all been robbed several times. That's standard." A white civil rights activist who moved down from Connecticut says, "We came here because we thought it would be a better way of life. My kids had never heard the word nigger in their lives, but now they're bigoted just from the abuse and the shoving around they have...
...most important aspect of any prison is the relationships between the keepers and the kept. "It's hard doing time here," says Inmate Robert Johnson, 34. "It's the officers' attitude. Hold it up. Slow it down. Constant bickering." Some guards still call black inmates "nigger," and the doctor is accused of mixing arbitrary racial attitudes with his medicine. The food is still bad. At lunch the liver was leathery and the mashed potatoes cold and lumpy. Everyone at the table insisted that conditions are worse now than a year...
...watered stock to your neighbors. Irving based his swindle on the fact that his own publishers knew him and assumed that he was honest. From that misguided trust, as much as from Irving's talents as a fabricator, all else followed. Long before Hemingway, Mark Twain's Nigger Jim knew that the Hemingway hero is not to be defined in terms of yachts and blondes. "Trash," said Jim, "is what people is dat puts dirt on de head er dey fren's." Otto Friedrich
...white side of his nature is as doomed to suffocation as the black. Cheated by his employers, taunted and humiliated beyond endurance, he undertakes mayhem as a sort of mad ritual, an attempt to be for once the white man's priest and judge instead of his willing nigger...
...years, a white sociologist at a California university specialized in race relations, undaunted by racists' taunts that he was a "radical," a "nigger lover" and a "Communist." Today, he is seriously considering quitting his field altogether because of demoralizing attacks, not from his old critics but from militant black students. "It is too much of a hassle," he says, "to try to be an impartial behavorial scientist when the sole criterion for knowledge, understanding or credibility is the color of your skin...