Word: niggerized
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...high school. Slim and small for his age, he spoke quietly describing his school year. "They would call me 'walkin' talkin' tootsie-roll,' 'burrhead', and other things like that. They used to throw crayons and chalk at me during class discussion and say 'we're going to kill that nigger'. Miss Martin, one of my teachers, let them throw at me during class. Next year I am going to take up a policy of going out of the room with the teacher to stop the crayons and the chalk...
...said, "Nigger's where in the hell are your going...
...What in the Hell did you say nigger?" the man began to yell. "Don't be getting smart. Don't be saying good to me. I'll beat your brains...
...institution where rewards are supposedly on merit. Unlike the groups of early Christians or the cells of the French Resistance, justification derives not from an oppressive outer force but rather from the members' inner needs for exclusivity. As James Baldwin has pointed out, everyone needs his "nigger." We are told by the Choate Club president that secrecy was necessary in order to avoid the anxiety suffered by those who weren't chosen. I suggest rather that secrecy at the Choate Club, in an egalitarian age where restrictive barriers are collapsing and on a campus where fraternal orders are viewed with...
...explain "nigger" to the tearful face of a six-year-old? That the zoo is for whites only? How do you enlist a soldier to lay down his life for freedom-of which he knows not? How do you tell a young mother to teach her young that tear gas, dogs and fiery crosses should instill a zest for self-dignity? How do you tell the world that a great man, a black man, has been shot by a white man for wanting to be a free...