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Alternative: War. To many of Kenya's 40,000 white settlers such a policy amounts to appeasement of "coolies" (Indians) and "monkeys" (Africans). They blame their trouble on the faraway British Colonial Office, which they regard as a "nigger-loving" annex of the London School of Economics. Some of Minister Blundell's neighbors openly call him a traitor, because he lent his considerable prestige to a series of reforms that admitted one African and two Indians to the governor's cabinet. But when the question was put to the white settlers at Nakuru last week, Blundell...
...cited a critic who attacked Joseph Conrad for wasting time on mundane activities in "The Nigger of the Narcissus." "Those mundane things are life, and when criticism begins to regret life it is time to try to conceive more generously," he said...
...Dora, Fla. one day last week, someone drew a chalk line down the school sidewalk for all the pupils to see. One side was labeled "White People," the other "Nigger Lovers." Reason for the line: 65 of the pupils had just signed a special petition to TIME about the plight of the five children of Orange Picker Allan Platt (TIME, Dec. 13). Though the Platts had insisted that they are of Irish-Indian descent-and had documents to prove it-Mt. Dora's Sheriff Willis McCall arbitrarily decided that they are Negroes, and ordered them out of the school...
...K.K.K.-type cross was set ablaze in front of the law building. But next morning, as he walked to class, groups of white students stopped him and apologized for the Klansters. After that, Washington had only one unpleasant experience-the time when a fellow student used the word nigger in class. Washington felt that the student had acted only out of habit, but, says he, "there were a few liberals in the room who I knew would resent it if I showed no offense. So I turned around and looked at the fellow with as stern a look...
What started out as a forbidden idyll headed quickly toward disaster. Link had his pride, did not want to be simply a kept lover. When he tried to break with Camilo, she called him a nigger and cried rape. While the whole town was talking and racial tension was at its worst, Link was abducted to the Treadway home. There Camilo's husband shot him dead...