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...would a Jew feel if there were signs all over the Yard for a group whose anagram was KIKE? Probably similar to being in Nazi Germany. Or, if an African-American was surrounded by signs saying NIGGER? Probably similar to being in Alabama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'FAG' Flyers Insensitive | 2/12/1993 | See Source »

...methods. Marshall agreed, whereupon the politician immediately called a press conference and announced that he had just witnessed a most sickening spectacle: a white female nurse washing the back of a black man. The politician then demanded that the state legislature immediately appropriate money for "a nigger school" so that this sort of thing would not happen again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fanfare for an Uncommon Man: THURGOOD MARSHALL | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

...BLACK MAN IS DOUSED IN GASOLINE AND SET ON fire. A note found nearby reads "one les ((sic)) nigger more to go" and is signed "KKK." It happened in Hillsborough County, Florida, on New Year's Day, and last week three white men were arrested in connection with the attack. It was a fitting backdrop for the FBI's first ever national report on the subject of bias crimes. The study, based on information supplied by law-enforcement agencies in 32 states, found that 4,558 hate-crime incidents were reported in 1991. Racial bias motivated 6 of 10 offenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hatred Turns Out Not To Be Color-Blind | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

USING THE WORD NIGGER GETS YOU KICKED OFF most teams. But since Marge Schott owns the Cincinnati Reds, she's probably not going anywhere. In depositions from a lawsuit filed against Schott by a former employee, several former Reds executives allege that they heard Schott refer to two players as her "million-dollar niggers." She denies using the phrase but admits using the N word. There are also charges that Schott has a swastika armband at home, but she argues that it's "memorabilia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marge's Mouth | 12/7/1992 | See Source »

...explained my concern to one of Malcolm's lieutenants sitting next to me at dinner. He said, "Don't you dare call Malcolm a Negro. That word reminds us of `nigger.'" In the early sixties it would have been provocative for me to say that we had two "Blacks." Malcolm's lieutenant suggested that I might say that tonight we had one Black and one Negro. I hardly thought that would do. I leaned across the table and put the question to Malcolm. Without hesitation he replied that although in general he did not like the word Negro, he found...

Author: By Roger D. Fisher, | Title: Malcolm X--After 31 Years | 12/3/1992 | See Source »

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