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Word: niggerness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fine young people have sought happiness without rebellion, exhibitionism or social pressure. Black bigots will scream "Uncle Tom honkey sellout," white bigots will look for "nigger babies," political bigots will see an "L.B.J. deal" and will expose their paranoid vileness to those who view this as a mature event in a maturing country. Three cheers for human power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 13, 1967 | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

...foes. The Northern press was widely critical. The Laconia, N.H. Democrat went so far as to urge that Lincoln and the Constitution be discarded, and that the Democratic Northern states combine with the Southern "rather than have the country divided and ruined to carry out the self-righteous nigger abstractions of a set of ignorant and hypocritical fanatics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: DIVIDED WE STAND: The Unpopularity of U.S. Wars | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...reaction was echoed by a respectable businessman lunching at the Westmoreland Country Club in Glenview, Ill.: "If I were Rusk, I'd be inclined to shoot the guy." A grande dame at the Orlando Country Club in Florida gloated: "It will serve the old goat right to have nigger grandbabies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: A Marriage of Enlightenment | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...haired Black Power fanatic harangued a crowd of more than 1,000 with his customary oxymoronic oratory, advising his listeners that the U.S. has 13 concentration camps where it plans to put Negroes and that "America gave us a black astronaut just so's they could lose that nigger in space." Then came the familiar peroration: "Stop singing and start swinging, chump. Get a gun." As the crowd broke up, a Negro girl skipped down the street happily chanting "We're going to have a riot, we're going to have a riot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Man with a Match | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...riot once it broke; yet to the raging Negroes of the ghetto, he seemed half Whitey himself. On one occasion, before Watts broke, O'Seyre's young son, raised in an integrated neighborhood, spotted a Negro in Griffith Park and said: "Look, Daddy, there's a nigger man." Reprimanded, he broke into tears when he realized that he too was black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Watts: The Model | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

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