Word: niggerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seventh-grade English teacher. All my students watched Roots. The effect on them was not a step toward interracial unity. They were confused and upset, and reacted by calling one another "Masser" and "Nigger...
What accounts for the charges? As best I can make out from The Crimson, Suze used a student essay containing the phrase "nigger maid" as a prose model. Also, she required that her students read the essay by X.J. Kennedy entitled "Who Killed King Kong?", in which Kennedy sees Kong as "a black superman figure." I do not have access to the first essay cited, the student essay, but I have read Kennedy's piece, and I gladly tell of it: it comprises twelve paragraphs, only one of which, the second to last, deals with black response to King Kong...
...example of what the students call Craig's "practice" of "discouraging black students" in her section of Expos 17, "Theory and Practice of Writing," the letter says that Craig used an essay that refers to a "nigger maid" as an example of model student writing...
...administrator. In 1969 she resigned after one month as dean of Howard's School of Law, protesting the university's leniency to student demands. When one student insisted on a male replacement, she told him coldly: "I didn't stop being the white man's nigger to become a black man's nigger...
...attributes he will bring to the U.N. are a fine speaking style, an attractive family (he has four children) and an indefinable quality that makes people trust him. Also diplomatic experience in the harshest sense. As he once put it: "I was taught to fight when people called me nigger. That's when I learned that negotiation is better than fighting...