Word: niggerness
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...Sommers' brisk, pretty version of Huck's wayward youth gets most of Twain's words right, even if the music sounds like a TV jingle. Huck (plucky Elijah Wood) eludes his troglodyte father (Ron Perlman, doing an uncanny Tom Waits impression) for an eventful honeymoon on a raft with Nigger Jim (just plain Jim here, in a nicely balanced performance by Courtney B. Vance). Huck's runaway mouth gets them in trouble, and his wit gets them...
...King testified that he led police on a chase because he feared a return to prison. He described being shocked by a police stun gun; he said police taunted him. Defense lawyers tried to rock King. One tried to pin him down on whether officers called him "killer" or "nigger." King was blurry on details, but Laurie Levenson, a law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, says, "When the jury went back into the jury room, they had a human being on their minds, not some blip on a TV screen...
...Gideonese's analogy of using "KIKE" or "NIGGER" made us understand his point of view. Yet, art is not always P.C. We do not regret posting the fliers, but we do regret distracting people from our real purpose. Our goal is to utilize the diverse artistic talents of Harvard's freshman class in a multi-media creation for the Arts First festival in the spring. We are particularly upset about this incident because our hope is to unify, not to divide, the class of 1996. We would like to extend an open invitation to all creative, enthusiastic, artistic first-year...
Some students said they felt "nigger" elicited a negative "gut reaction...
...discussion focused on whether use of "nigger" in pop culture has eroded the term's pejorative meaning...