Word: niggerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baggage" that blacks brought over from Africa. Rather, violence is something blacks learned in the U.S. "For most of their history in this country, in fact, blacks were victims, not initiators, of violence." As one Southern police official summed up justice for blacks before World War I, "If a nigger kills a white man, that's murder. If a white man kills a nigger, that's justifiable homicide. If a nigger kills another nigger, that's one less nigger." Or, as a Negro blues song put it, "White folks and nigger in great Co't house/ Like Cat down Cellar...
...Instead, they sublimated their rage with elaborate "toasting sessions" at which they would spin tall tales about underdogs outfoxing their oppressors, or celebrate the likes of "the Great MacDaddy" ("Got a tombstone disposition and a graveyard mind"), who would turn white values on their head by being the "baddest nigger." In the 1960s black militants used such folk heroes as role models; Black Panther Bobby Seale named his son after a famous badman of 19th century ballads named Stagolee, "a bad nigger off the block...
...years and countless albums and groups later, I feel so twisted, so confused and maze-mad; "Rock'n'Roll Nigger" Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen and Lou Reed slip through the rock world of packaging-marketing-publicity and make me want to tear down buildings like I did when I first heard The Who and The Stones (but their music--ah, the beauty of it--consumed that urge...
...trial proceeded, the threat of violence was never far. Two bomb scares emptied the courtroom, and police confiscated several automatic weapons. Defense lawyers monitored CB radio conversations that called for the jury to "hang the nigger." Cullman Mayor Bob McGluckin vowed that the authorities could maintain order. Said he: "We have a peaceful, law-abiding community. We do not like outside people coming in and exerting a detrimental influence...
...When the black was stabbed by the Hell's Angel at the end of the movie, they screamed 'Kill the nigger,' the eyewitness added...