Word: niggerness
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...Governor Faubus' cry that Editor Ashmore was the worst of all possible culprits, "an ardent integrationist." Little Rock's white-supremacist Capital Citizens' Council (annual dues: $5) dubbed Ashmore "Public Enemy No. i." Eagerly abetted by some less scrupulous competitors, a statewide boycott against "that nigger-lovin' paper" had cost the 137-year-old Gazette (circ. 99,573) 3,000 subscribers by week...
...Yeah, but there's human beings and there's human beings. There's some people you want to send kids to school with, and some you don't. Like I say, I don't know how it is here, but down home a nigger's just different. I don't know why, but they are. First place, they're stupider. Maybe it's the background, never havin' books or talk around home but they get lower marks on IQ tests. Nobody in the North can deny that, either. Second place, they don't work in school. That makes it hard...
...change a nigger a few hours a day in school. Their families are the same way. Dirty, lazy, sick. More venereal disease, more rapes, more murders, more drinking, more crime, just plain more trouble than whites, all the time. That's statistics, too. You can look it up. It may be our fault they're that way. Maybe the whites should feel responsible. I don't say we're not. I guess most of the trouble is that they're all so poor you folks up here couldn't understand it, and they've always been poor, and they...
...sipped his coffee, made a crinkly face like a rotting pear, and continued his monologue. "You take my country. There's two niggers for every white. That means when you talk about integrating, you're not talking about sending the niggers to the nice white school, like in Little Rock. You're talking about sending whites to a nigger school with nigger teachers. And we just won't go. Maybe in Baltimore, or Little Rock, but not down home...
...gave her a look of triumph, gulped his coffee, and then added more soberly, "But you wouldn't understand. You've never lived down there, and you've never known a nigger the way we know 'em." He rose, held her coat for her, and followed her out into the rain...