Word: niggerized
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...realize that many Americans revere the shortened word form, but unfortunately the word "Abo," referring to Australia's Aboriginal Embassy [March 13], is received by Australian aborigines with about the same amount of enthusiasm as the word nigger or coon by Negro people...
...comedies." Universal and Fox will contribute their own versions of the black private-eye story. A bit more imaginative, Columbia has a black western, Buck and the Preacher, ready for spring distribution; it is directed by Sidney Poitier, who stars with Harry Belafonte. Paramount will release The Legend of Nigger Charley, about a slave who kills his overseer and heads for the frontier-a Southern western...
...what you're doing here is a part of the confrontation process, because Harvard is one of the outstanding representatives of the liberal establishment. They have a very nice, clean-cut liberal veneer. The President of Harvard never called anyone a nigger. But the same Harvard President would participate in the exploitation of the resources of the people of Angola, which is just as bad as a racial epithet. And you have got to make that clear...
There have been other changes in Wallace the campaigner. The man who once declared that he would "out-nigger" anybody on the stump, whose most durable public image was blocking the schoolhouse door to blacks, seldom lets a racist tinge color his rhetoric these days. The shift is partly a response to the more moderate temper of the times in the South, partly a reflection of the fact that he no longer needs to. George Wallace has become his own code word; his people know where he stands, and his country style permits infinite shadings of nuance and allusion. Today...
...students refused to attend classes, calling the curriculum irrelevant. Then fistfights between blacks and whites broke out for four days in a row; one white student was hit over the head with a chair. When he tried to make peace, Cabell, who was 26, found himself in the middle-"nigger" to some whites and "Uncle Tom" to some blacks...