Word: niggerized
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...other. Distrust is mutual -and obvious-at the start. "The Negro is lazy and uncooperative." "He has no self-respect." "He's immoral, has no regard for life or property," say the police. "Police are cold, mechanical, rude," say the citizens. "They use foul language and call Negroes nigger, or boy, or uncle, or woman." "They treat suspects differently depending on their race and economic status, and they are prone to violence...
...against stubborn staff resistance. Members of the staff argued that "people always talked about 'what Uncle Dudley said.'" Whipple went ahead and removed it. He adds parenthetically that he received only one letter after it was removed: "I'm glad you killed off Uncle Dudley--he was a nigger lover...
Wallace agrees. Jumping at the chance to hurt Democrats in the North, Wallace has attempted in the last year to convince Northerners that he is not just a crude racist--"My wife received 40 per cent of the nigger vote. These niggers know I want them to get educated." Instead of blatant racism, Wallace offers Northerners "sound Constitutional principles" because "I'm not running on segregation, I'm running on states' rights." That distinction makes him seem more respectable, so Northern whites find it easier to support him openly...
...seven or eight trainees would pile into one car, leaving Johnson and Blasher alone in another. When lessons were given in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, the instructor showed how a hand kerchief could be used-in case any one was ever called upon to save a Negro. The word nigger was used freely, and because of their friendship, Blasher and Johnson were called "salt and pepper...
...news: Hepburn puts on that blank stare one remembers from Bringing Up Baby. Tracy's seamed old face knits together, and his chin goes up like that of an Indian chief reading threatening smoke signals. The Negro maid upbraids Poitier as a "smooth-talking, smart-ass nigger" taking advantage of her little girl. Only the family friend, lovable Monsignor Ryan (Cecil Kellaway), is unfazed, as a good Catholic priest should...