Word: niggerized
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...Harvard's Klan members have limited their activities to scrawling graffiti in Mather House. This is certainly an ineffective way to promote their agenda. It also prevents other students from learning much about the KKK. Writing the word "nigger" on a wall really doesn't teach most students about such a grand American institution as the Klan...
...Galloway says, the mostly white suburbs around Buffalo have been hostile to minorities. Security guards and police keep blacks under surveillance, he claims, and even have a special lingo for this detail. "Radio calls would say, 'We are stopping a unit," Galloway says, "which is an acronym for 'Unwanted Nigger In Town.'" (Police deny using this term...
...dark forces seemed to go well beyond mere aesthetic fascination or adolescent rebellion. In one of the book's most disturbing passages, Morrisroe discusses Mapplethorpe's almost pathological hatred of black men, who were ironically, some of his favorite subjects to photograph. Bragging that he could always "catch a nigger with coke," he made a routine practice of picking them up in bars, even after discovering that he was HIV positive...
...they have just got the ball with only seconds to spare. Though his client may or may not have got away with murder, during the Simpson trial Cochran, repeatedly and effectively, managed to get away with rhetorical arson. He ignited a battle with prosecutor Christopher Darden over the word "nigger." He dragged the ghost of Malcolm X into the courtroom by dubbing Fuhrman and detective Philip Vannatter "twin devils." By the end of the trial he had taken to showing up flanked by Nation of Islam bodyguards. And, to the horror even of some members of the defense team...
...work of W.E.B. Dubois, developed the concept of "contextual identity." Because identity is contextual, it is possible for there to exist two levels of language "in-group" and "out-group." The theory holds that members of different groups shift their language accordingly based on context. Therefore, terms like "nigger," "wop" and "J.A.P." may be used comfortably when dealing with members of one's own ethnic group without necessarily constituting belief or objective reality about one's situation...