Word: niggerism
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...Racial Equality had dispatched a few buses loaded with Freedom Riders--young Negro civil rights workers and a few whites--to challenge segregation laws in various public facilities in the Deep South. The bus driver yelled to the Anniston crowd, "Well, boys, here they are. I brought you some niggers and nigger-lovers...
...that simple." I told him, "The word 'nigger', coming from a white person, just has more power that that...
Despite the fact that she was much younger than I am and that she was much less educated than I am, when that girl called me a nigger, she assumed a role much larger than herself. She wasn't a person insulting me, but a body in white skin, whose lack of pigment represented the domination of one race over...
...remember the thought that began to run through my mind when as I wrestled with the impulse to physically hurt her: it was the shock that all the people who were crowded into that city pool heard this young, white girl call me a nigger. It was a feeling I can only liken to shame. In as much as I can't control the legacy of the white supremacy that girl's skin color allowed her to claim, I couldn't control my initial reaction to her slur. As Toni Morrison writes in Beloved, "The definitions belong to the definers...
...reasons why Tarentino could get away with using the "n"-word 80-plus times in "Jackie Brown," because it was always uttered by a black man. Is this some kind of a double standard? Not really. Black people can "get away" with calling each other niggers because no matter how high up on the social ladder a black person can get, he can never be high enough to be white. In a very real sense, he will never be any better than the person he calls a nigger...