Word: niggerness
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...Geechee said: "I got a thing to tell you. I got to have help." 'Geechee's man, Leroy, was serving a 20-year term for manslaughter. "You know people," said 'Geechee, "you can git him out. . . . He didn't do a thing. This other nigger was layin' for him. He went at Leroy and he bopped him one and Leroy be's strong and he made a pass at him and it done killed this nigger." Author Rawlings got Leroy out, gave him a job at the grove. Soon his manner was so threatening...
...whole damn thing," urged Canada Lee, heavy set negro lead in Richard Wright and Paul Green's "Native Son," as he walked down Tremont Street toward the Majestic Theatre stage door. "When I was a little kid I can remember white kids in the neighborhood would shout 'nigger' as I walked down the Pavement. Hello Miss Mahoney, I hear you're the belle of Boston--" he stopped to talk for a moment with a lean, grey haired old lady who passed him walking toward Boylston. "Today when I go 'Long the street I know that a colored man is free...
...Oklahoma is a queer, wild state . . . a place where they arrest people on account of the books in their libraries, where a 'nigger's got to know his place' . . . where the Ku Klux Klan still ranges in their primordial shirttails through the cow pastures and where cro-magnon men still roam the wilderness in dinner coats and black ties. . . . Also where they do not allow Charles Lindbergh to speak...
...Nigger...
Plain to labor leaders, plain to everyone was the noisy nigger in the strike woodpile: Communism in labor's ranks-the old Red policy of fomenting strikes because any kind of labor trouble is good for Communism, the old Red policy which since the beginning of World War II has been reinforced in the U.S. by Nazi cash...