Word: niggerness
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...back of the head and knocked me down and said, 'You smart son-of-a-bitch, I been wanting to get my hands on you for a long time.' I said, 'Why you want me for?' 'Y' said, 'You is a nigger who is buying new cars and we can't hardly live. I'll get you yet.'" When Brazier was arrested again five months later by the same officer, Brazier's wife related: " 'Y' then said, 'I told you I would get you.' James...
...Lutheran Church, two miles away from the fire scene in an allwhite, lower-middle-income neighborhood that has long feared and fought encroachment by Chicago's growing Negro population. As the first busload of Negroes arrived outside the church, a handful of white teen-agers began to chant: "Nigger, nigger, nigger-go back to your neighborhood...
More Negroes arrived, and the crowd of whites began to grow until it surrounded the church. Inside, Mrs. Albert H. Constien, wife of the pastor, answered the phone and heard an anonymous voice say: "If you don't get those niggers out of that church, we'll blow it up." The mob swelled to 350. Down in the basement, the Negroes could hear every bitter shout: "Nigger, nigger, go home," and "Nigger lovers never go to heaven," and "We'll rock you out," and "Get the niggers out of there...
...Henry Gonzales, 45, another liberal, is a state senator of Latin American ancestry, ran a successful campaign for Kennedy among Mexican-Americans last fall, and boasts a notable frankness: "Some call me a chili-eating, nigger-loving Mexican. I'm guilty on all counts...
Along the way, Gregory has had occasional hecklers, and once in a rare while the word nigger has come like a bullet to the stage. His reaction is cool. "According to my contract, the management pays me $50 every time someone calls me that," he says. "Please do it again." Explains Gregory about his material: "If I don't handle it just right, the audience will feel sorry for me. And you can't make people laugh if they feel sorry for you." Dick Gregory handles it right, because clearly he is not sorry for himself, as when...