Word: niggerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contraceptives, the Mexican people are not only "Catholic inspired," but also hampered by poverty and lack of information. "Tawdry taco joints" are everywhere in Southern California. The comment about "ebullient oles and accurately hurled wine bottles" stretches literary license. The word cholo is pejorative and equivalent to "nigger," "kike" and other racial epithets. Pocho is also derogatory, and so are pachuco, gringo-landia, and agringado...
...Handkerchief-Head." The reason for such emotional outbursts is that Powell's fall from power has won him a shaman's hold on Negroes' feelings. At a rally in Powell's church, even the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins was denounced as a "handkerchief-head nigger" for a statement casting doubt on Powell's value to the civil rights movement. (Wilkins said he had been misinterpreted...
...know you're a nigger woman why don't you act like one?" growled the chief, and he promptly arrested her for interfering with his investigation...
...only way for a Negro to get his name in the first few pages of most Alabama newspapers is to do bodily harm to a white person. The small number of other endeavors that make the papers are ordinarily consigned to what is known in the trade as the "nigger page" (a compositor for the Selma Times-Journal recently precipitated a demonstration by angry Negroes when he inadvertantly failed to remove a line of type reading "Nigger Page" from that section of the paper...
...moderate in Natchez," Negro Comedian Dick Gregory once said, "is a white man who hangs a nigger from a low tree." Though Gregory is a master of bitter hyperbole, there was no exaggeration in his description as far as one Wharlest Jackson, 36, was concerned last week. Jackson had the sort of background designed to infuriate Natchez-style moderates, not to mention extremists. He had been treasurer of the Natchez branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He had actively participated in a boycott of white stores that followed the bombing of another Natchez N.A.A.C.P. official...