Word: niggerized
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...young black man to think he can rise to be President of the U.S. than it is for him to think he can become president of a FORTUNE 500 company," says Richard Clarke, the employment recruiter. Many black executives are referred to by other Negroes as H.N.l.C.s (Head Nigger in Charge); they are assigned to public relations jobs or marketing to black customers but are isolated from real decision making. Yet quite a few blacks are climbing up the corporate ladder. In central Indiana, where the Ku Klux Klan once marauded, three blacks have risen to high management positions...
...stereotypical dialogue-'Ah's gwine down de ribah'-so we had to handle the language and the attitude. We had to sustain the dignity of the man." He and his brother Robert proceeded to elevate the slave's image by altering his name (he is Nigger Jim no longer, just plain Jim) and giving him a couple of songs to sing. "Gotta get away to Cairo/Ai-ro/Illinois!" he croons brightly with Huck as they pole their way upstream toward freedom and a soundtrack record album...
There is the film's beginning, for example. It is 1874 and a group of legally free but exploited blacks is laying railroad tracks under the hot sun. The white boss man demands a song--"a nigger song"--to pass the time. The blacks huddle together and sweetly coo Cole Porter's "I Get A Kick...
...indeed know me," he continued. "I'm that nigger that is no longer just hunted, robbed and murdered. I'm the nigger that hunts...
...with a Texas hat came on next and since he knew he couldn't follow that said Boy, ain't that O.B. something. I never I'd live to see the day. They're ganging up on us, him and Charlie Pride. I never thought I'd see a nigger imitatin' Elvis Presley. And then Donna Fargo who'd almost been forgotten, came out and sang well enough. A very fat girl and a very thin girl had been waling up together throughout the show to take pictures of the performers and now when the people saw Donna Fargo bend...