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...Indianapolis [the site of Tyson's recent rape trial] it was 'We're going to hang this nigger right here,'" he said. "It wasn't concern for the lady because they didn't even know who she was then...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chuck D Speaks at Sanders | 2/22/1992 | See Source »

Howie alleges that a Cambridge man struck the car she was driving with a 30-inch rod. The man, Christopher Hassell, also reportedly yelled, "Don't ever drive that close to me, nigger...

Author: By Ronnetta L. Fagan, COUNTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Officers Declared Not Biased | 2/21/1992 | See Source »

...Judith B. Howie alleges that Christopher Hassell, who lives on Everett Street near Harvard Law School, hit the car she was driving with a 30-inch stick. Hassell reportedly yelled, "Don't ever drive that close to me, nigger...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Civil Rights Trial Opens In Cambridge | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

Demagogues don't yell "nigger" or "Jew boy" anymore. They've learned better. Just as David Duke shed his Klansman's sheets and Nazi uniform for the well-groomed banality of a suburban stockbroker, he traded in his bigoted rhetoric for a slick new glossary of coded appeals to racial resentment, market tested over the past two decades by mainstream conservative politicians. When Duke, following Richard Nixon's lead, denounces hiring "quotas," many among his white working-class supporters hear him saying, The government is going to give your jobs to blacks. When Duke, like Ronald Reagan, castigates "welfare queens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics Why Bigotry Still Works At Election Time | 11/25/1991 | See Source »

...time Thomas lived in a house with indoor plumbing. Anderson, who made a decent living selling ice and coal from the back of a pickup truck, could barely read but was a strong believer in education. He enrolled Thomas in a nearby school staffed by what white Catholics called "nigger nuns." They rode in the back of the bus with their students on field trips and rapped the palms of the children who did not hand in homework. Thomas' grandfather took him to meetings of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: Marching to a Different Drummer | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

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