Word: niggerness
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...left. At one forum on Christian-Jewish relations he was viciously heckled by a delegation of Christian Fronters, and a virago pushed her way towards him as he was leaving. "I'm a Catholic!" she screamed. "You're not a Catholic-you're a nigger-lover and a Jew-lover. You call yourself a bishop. You're not a bishop, you're a rabbi." And she spat in his face...
...Albert's boss, Mr. Tittle, knew it, but in his own way he admired his sharecropper's spunk and aspiration. If Albert could buy the paint, he wouldn't stop him. Mathis, the storekeeper, was another kind of white man. Said he to Mr. Tittle: "Every nigger around here knows what he's doing ... If you let this business get out of hand they'll all start thinking they're good as you or me. So I'm going to stop this thing. If somebody...
...industrialists want cheap Negro labor. Neither industrialists nor liberals want to abolish South Africa's color bar, but both are willing to give the blacks more education and opportunity. In the heightened emotions of the present crisis, they find it necessary to show that they are not "nigger lovers." Arguing in Parliament for technical training for black workers, Jacobus Strauss declared, "Higher skills are in any case beyond the capacity of Negroes." Oddly enough, it was an ardent Malanite who set him straight. "Negroes can do skilled work if trained for it," replied Malan's Labor Minister Barend...
These misadventures, handled with fine flair and gusto by Author Ellison, end the boy's college career. Kicking him out for irresponsible conduct, the president admits that, to get where he is, he himself had "to act the nigger." He hands out some advice for the road: "You let the white folk worry about pride and dignity -you learn where you are and get yourself power, influence...
...friends, Arnall was a shining liberal, to his Georgia foes an out & out "nigger lover." He eliminated chains and shackles from Georgia's notorious prisons, had the poll tax repealed, fought for revocation of the Ku Klux Klan's state charter. Barred by law from succeeding himself in office, Arnall in 1946 saw Gene Talmadge sweep back to power, but die before he could take office. (Gene's son Herman was elected governor...