Word: niggerness
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...seen. Daily, the children skipped at his heels, yipping "Neger! Neger!", and Author Baldwin sometimes muttered sourly to himself "exactly as I muttered on the streets of a city these children have never seen, when I was no bigger than these children are now: 'Your mother was a nigger...
...father, Will, a dining-car worker on the B. & O. and later steward of Baltimore clubs, including the Gibson Island club, a yachtsman's paradise with jellyfish for serpents. Will, light-skinned and blue-eyed, used to tell Thurgood and his brother Aubrey, "If anyone calls you nigger, you not only got my permission to fight him-you got my orders to fight him." Once, Thurgood followed orders. Delivery boy for a hat store, he was trying to board a trolley with a stack of hats so high he "couldn't see over or around them...
...home-loving navigator who has never really navigated; Bombardier Robert Montgomery (pleasantly plagued by his cinemactor name) is a Texan who winds up gladly admitting that a hot pilot known only as Thunderbird. "a guy with seven Air Medals, two D.F.C.s and a D.S.C., is no ordinary nigger." The book's only homegrown villain, Colonel Condon, was booted from West Point after his third year for cheating on a French exam, now nobly carries on by bartering stolen food for his emaciated comrades' wristwatches. Standard Nazis, snarling or whining as occasion demands, fill out the cast...
...lame Negro bootblack from Herndon's barber shop pathetically trying to outrun a mob of whites. Less than a hundred yards from us the chase ended. We saw clubs and fists descending to the accompaniment of savage shouting and cursing. Suddenly a voice cried: 'There goes another nigger!' Its work done, the mob went after new prey. The body with the withered foot lay dead in a pool of blood on the street...
...midst of his on-the-spot investigation, he learned that a mob had been tipped off and was looking for him. White prudently caught the first train for Memphis, although the conductor urged him to stay and see the fun. "There's a damned yellow nigger down here passing for white," he said, "and the boys are going...