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Word: niggerism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Complains Wilkinson: "The Government is giving all the gravy to Negroes and other minorities who have not earned it." But blacks are not the only targets. Says he: "This is not just a racist, nigger-hating organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Klan Rides Again | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...Kaffirboethie!" (nigger lover), a stocky man in a safari suit yelled at the political speaker in the Transvaal town of Rustenburg. A burly youth then launched a right hook at the heckler. Scuffles erupted throughout the hall before baton-swinging police managed to restore a semblance of order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Adapt or Die | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...neighborhood of New Orleans where he was born 47 years ago. His grandfather was a prosperous "bayou entrepreneur," his father a dentist, and his mother a prominent black Creole. Although they tried to shield him from racial prejudice, Young recalls: "I was taught to fight when people called me Nigger, and that's when I learned negotiating was better than fighting." After going to Howard University and Hartford Seminary Foundation, he eventually moved to Atlanta to work with King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1972, after one unsuccessful campaign, he was elected to Congress from a predominantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Turbulent Times of an Outspoken Ambassador | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...turned down over 30 people who wanted in for the same reason as Charles Bronson in Death Wish-because somebody in their family has been attacked." Recruits are first tested for reflexes and ability to go without sleep, then for tolerance of verbal abuse, as Sliwa calls them "nigger" or "spik," the least of the taunts they may get in the subway. Nearly every volunteer has been excited by The Warriors, a film in which street gangs plot to take over New York. Among the fired-up who have been accepted are ten whites, six blacks, twelve Hispanics and, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: The Magnificent 13 | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

That's the George Scott who suffered through strings of strikeouts last summer, who listened to mob howls of "Boooooomer" fade to flat, drunken curses: "Fat nigger." And it's the Boomer who didn't want to talk about racism...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: A Diet, Two Hits and a Slide Resurrect 'Boomer' | 4/24/1979 | See Source »

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