Word: niggerness
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...allow the jury to sample just two morsels from the Fuhrman tapes, the defense roared back with a potent parade of witnesses. Kathleen Bell, who claims she met Fuhrman at a Marine recruiting station in the mid-1980s, testified that he said, "If I had my way, all the niggers would be gathered together and burned." Natalie Singer, who met Fuhrman and his partner in a hospital emergency room, said he told her, "The only good nigger is a dead nigger." Roderic Hodge, whom Fuhrman arrested on drug charges in 1987 (Hodge was acquitted), described the cop snarling from...
...American would have found confirmation of that in Stettheimer's guest list: to reach it, you pretty much had to be European or gay, or both. Then you would find your way into her paintings, as did the theater critic Carl Van Vechten, author of the novel Nigger Heaven and prime link between downtown white New York and the Harlem Renaissance, posing in rapturously exaggerated contrapposto in 1922's Portrait of Carl Van Vechten on a red stool on a black rug on a red carpet; while in Portrait of Stieglitz, 1928, the shoe and cane (nothing else) of artist...
...murder trial of O.J. Simpson was once again awash in the racial animus of former L.A.P.D. detective Mark Fuhrman. A series of witnesses vividly testified before the jury about the detective's vocal hatred of blacks and his repeated use of the epithet nigger. Fuhrman was dramatically dragooned back into the courtroom, where (with the jury absent) he invoked his privilege against self-incrimination when asked about his truthfulness and the possible planting of evidence in the case. At the behest of the prosecution, an appeals court reversed a ruling issued by Judge Lance Ito that would have allowed...
Ruling on new evidence in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, Judge Lance Ito said jurors could hear only two relatively tame snippets--out of at least 41 instances--in which ex-L.A.P.D. detective Mark Fuhrman used the word nigger on a screenwriter's interview tapes. The decision enraged Simpson's defense lawyers, who had been counting on the tapes to bolster their contention that Fuhrman--who denied on the stand that he had used the epithet--is a racist who planted the famous bloody glove at Simpson's home in order to frame him. Earlier in the week, with...
Judge Ito emerged from his chambers this evening with a middle-ground solution to the Mark Fuhrman problem: allow the Simpson jury to hear just a smattering of the former LAPD detective's racially-charged, taped remarks. Among them are two instances in which Fuhrman says the word "nigger," despite having testified that he had not used the slur in a decade. But Ito barred the defense from using any of Fuhrman's 18 statements about police misconduct and attacked the defense theory that Fuhrman had moved a glove from the murder scene to Simpson's house to engineer...