Word: niggerized
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...received 2,000 votes to the winner's 6,000 in a district with 20,000 potential voters. The results were disappointing for Smith who had hoped against hope to get into the runoff, but he was not disillusioned. "For a man with my reputation, a Communist, a damn nigger lover, a radical and a peacenik, I did damn well," Smith beamed as he watched the results trickle in on the television at his home--campaign headquarters for the last three months...
...campaign was relatively quiet. At this moment the white power structure is not threatened--after all, he placed eighth. But had Smith entered the runoff, "the big boys would have been after me," he says with not a little glee. "Then they'd red bait and they'd nigger bait as usual...
...parties has had its nastier moments, reminiscent of the American dilemma in both tone and substance. In 1964 the Conservative candidate for Parliament in Smethwick, an ugly industrial town with a growing colored population, ran his campaign against Laborite Gordon Walker on the slogan, "If you want a nigger neighbor, vote Labor. "The Conservative...
Styron's upbringing on matters of race was normal for a Southern boy. He was taught to call a Negro female a "woman" instead of a "lady." He was forbidden to use the word "nigger." He was pained by the sight of extreme Negro poverty, while he took school segregation as an ordinary fact of life...
True to the South's Protestant tradition, Nat's fundamentalism is based on the Old Testament. He quotes frequently the verses of Isaiah. With white people, he talks in a subdued nigger-rhetoric fitting for a pious black Baptist minister (which he is). With other houses slaves his tone is slightly more relaxed, and with field Negroes (whom he holds in disdain) it becomes much more Sambo-ish. The juxtaposition of Nat speaking in several of his roles can at times be very amusing, and at other times--as when he speaks in an inferior style before less intelligent white...