Word: niggerism
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...ideal choice to play one of the media monde's great Jekyll and Hydes: Mark Fuhrman. Fuhrman showed up in our living rooms during the O.J. Simpson trial as the cocky L.A. cop who had found the bloody glove. He testified to not having said "nigger" in the past decade; the defense found a taped interview through which he sprinkled the epithet like jimmies on a sundae, then used his perjury to imply that Simpson was framed by racists. A few years later, he resurfaced as a TV-news expert crime commentator. Was this Fuhrman or his nonevil twin...
...convicted perjurer who helped set O.J. Simpson free"--because the clumsy script has someone say it 15 seconds after he appears--but we get few details about his disgrace until late in the movie. By then, Murder has cast him as a persecuted working stiff. "Say 'nigger,' Detective Fuhrman!" a rich kid taunts him, as if teasing the help. The true star of the movie is Fuhrman's sense of grievance: against the media, other cops, the rich--against any snotty jerk who thinks he's better than Mark Fuhrman...
...disappoint in the slightest. Lif hasn’t toned down his politics—he’s just made them more personal: “The government is smiling because they smell the scent of death blowing / Just showing that their plan is running precisely / This nigger ought to fit into a wood box nicely,” he rhymes on “A Glimpse Of The Struggle.” Phantom is a concept album (as the belabored liner notes explain), dealing with the personal struggles of a young man and concluding with a nuclear holocaust...
...kids went utterly, magically berserk with the frenzy of it all; and Jerry Lee stalked backstage, stinking of gasoline and wrath, and he said to Chuck Berry, real calm, as the sound of kids going crazy and stamping and yelling shook the walls; he said, 'Follow that, nigger...
...Kennedy’s core purpose in producing ‘Nigger’ was to assist White Americans in feeling comfortable with using the epithet ‘nigger,’” Kilson wrote...