Word: niggerness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...still in middle school when he got his first lesson in racism. It was then that a group of white kids, whom he describes as part of a growing "skinhead" element in his school, began to harass him. "Hey, Rodney, how does it feel to be a nigger?" they would taunt. "How does it feel to know you'll always be a nigger? Is your mother a nigger too?" After a time Gullatte punched one of the white kids in the face. That earned Gullatte an in-school suspension. Worse, nobody believed him when he explained why he had lashed...
...White kids wanted to be black, black kids wanted to be like those in the video. MTV executives said, 'Let's kill rap and hip-hop, it's bringing people together--we can't have MTV be nigger TV,'" said...
...beanballs and spikings from opposing players, isolation on the road because he was not allowed to stay with his teammates at segregated hotels, and relentless invective from spectators. His wife Rachel, who went to all the games she could, sat in the stands and helplessly heard her husband called "nigger son of a bitch" and even worse...
...years. Throughout the book, Coleman finds white and black nerves fraying: a prosperous black Republican publisher relates the story of a racist slight at an awards banquet and tells Coleman, "You can achieve all you want to achieve in life, but you can't never get past being a nigger." In the end, Coleman says, it's up to whites, who "can either give up on the idea of racial harmony and just go on...or [try] to find ways to change hearts and minds...
...hours at the station house--doctors found he had a ripped bladder and a punctured lower intestine.) Louima says the officers then forced the stick into his mouth, breaking his front teeth. As all this took place, Louima claims, police taunted him, saying, "That's your s__, nigger," and "We're going to teach niggers to respect police officers," and "This is Giuliani time, not Dinkins time...