Word: niggerized
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...should be given an extra round of applause. Not only does Spayde walk, speak, and think old, he looks his part to the tee. Bill Strong, as Slim, carries the play through some rough sections and exerts fatherly confidence in contrast to the surrounding restlessness. Crooks, the stable buck "nigger" played by Paul D. Nichols, produces a forceful image. His accent is excellent and comes forth eloquently in his conversation with Lennie...
...federal aid for pay and equipment. In a city where the median income is under $5,000 a year, any help he can bring in through his knowledge of federal aid programs is sorely needed. His personality and promises have earned some grudging white support. "He may be a nigger," said one police sergeant, "but he's sure the smartest mayor we ever had." Explained AJ. Lawler, a 25-year resident: "Don't get me wrong, I don't love him. But I tell you, if he does half the things he says...
...minds with the filth, violence, and cultural lies that are all-pervasive in current productions of so-called black movies," explained Junius Griffin former president of the Hollywood branch of the NAACP and a founder of the new coalition. "The transformation from the stereotyped Stepin Fetchit to Super Nigger on the screen is just another form of cultural genocide...
BLACK ACTORS and directors, however, argue that the films economically boost the community because they provide needed jobs for blacks in the movie industry. D'Urville Martin, a black actor who stars in both The Legend of Nigger Charley and The Final Comedown, says: "There was a time when there was no black work, and now that we've got work people are still complaining...
...most important aspect of any prison is the relationships between the keepers and the kept. "It's hard doing time here," says Inmate Robert Johnson, 34. "It's the officers' attitude. Hold it up. Slow it down. Constant bickering." Some guards still call black inmates "nigger," and the doctor is accused of mixing arbitrary racial attitudes with his medicine. The food is still bad. At lunch the liver was leathery and the mashed potatoes cold and lumpy. Everyone at the table insisted that conditions are worse now than a year...