Word: niggerized
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...stockpile Maddox had laid in for just such an occasion. "Git, git," Maddox ordered. The Negroes did, with a crowd of angry Maddox patrons at their heels. Among them was a small boy dragging a 3-ft. ax handle and squealing: "I'm gonna kill me a nigger...
Earlier in the day, the sheriff's office had told the Summer News, there was "no Mr. Wiley in jail here. We got a nigger named Wily down here, though. Is that who you mean?" The sheriff said no date had yet been set for the trial...
...wagon to drive to Meridian. They had scheduled their trip so as to avoid driving through Deep Dixie after dark, always a perilous proposition for integration workers in such states as Alabama and Mississippi. As they passed through Birmingham, Ala., a car loaded with white teenagers pulled alongside, screamed "Nigger lover!" at a white girl student sitting next to Chaney in the station wagon...
...court. Unlike King, the sheriff had no trouble reconciling King's roles as lawyer and Negro--he just ignored the former. "Yeah, I knocked hell out of him," he told a reporter later, "and I'll do it again. I'm a white man and he's a damn nigger...
...this regard, James Baldwin is especially perceptive. In the process he is Comforter, Prophet, and the Angel who trumpets in the day of judgment. As Comforter, he counsels the tragic nigger--the no-smiling Uncle Tom transfigured into a saint by wisdom, but still a brooding, sorrowful man-boy with lowered eyes and a silent presence--who, according to Baldwin's humanism, is holy even though defeated. This holiness can only be attained through suffering and endurance. As Prophet, Baldwin warns Negroes that to believe they are niggers is the beginning of their destruction which may not end in Holiness...