Word: niggerized
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...controversial career of Georgia's "Wild Man from Sugar Creek" came to its end. No contemporary politicians except Louisiana's Huey Long and Mississippi's Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo had appealed so successfully to ignorance and bigotry. Gene Talmadge had been vehemently for keeping "the nigger" in his place. He had opposed high wages and labor unions, and had taken a dim view of education for the masses...
...advice" from white folks-only one piece of evidence connected the confident Bilbo with the fact that only 1,500 of Mississippi's 500,000 eligible Negroes had voted in July. That was one phrase, from a Bilbo campaign address in June: "The best way to keep a nigger away from a white primary in Mississippi is to see him the night before...
...lunch wagon where Nick Adams is eating his supper. The two men in the overly tight black overcoats come in looking for the Swede. From then on, for the next five or six minutes it is straight Hemingway. Except for editing out a reference to the cook as "nigger," Director Robert Siodmak plays Hemingway's tough, tight little story straight and to the letter...
John Johnson had been a soldier in Europe, but in Minden the whites had figured he was a "bad nigger"; he got drunk and was uppity. Three weeks ago, a white woman said she saw him and a young Negro named Albert Harris trying to get into her house."She shined a light and they ran away. The sheriff picked them up and took them to the red brick Webster Parish jail. Along about dusk a couple of nights' later he let them go because nobody had filed any charges against them...
There were a couple of cars outside the jail. Afterward the sheriff said "he thought he had heard the nigger yelling something like, 'Don't take me.' " But he didn't pay much attention. Albert Harris turned up the next morning. All he remembered was a voice saying, "You're a good nigger-we aren't going to hurt you much." He'd been hit on the head with a pistol...