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...still display the Stars and Bars prominently in their own parades. Hostile, Confederate-flag waving crowds abused civil rights demonstrators in 1960 and 1990. In a high school Humanities class, Joey (a boy I'd known from kindergarten) casually remarked that he planned on skipping school and "bust some nigger heads with my nigger stick"-- the wooden club he kept in the gun rack of his pickup truck. Like nearly every other pickup truck in the South, Joey's truck had Confederate flag vanity plates and a Stars and Bars silk-screened on the back windshield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Against the Rebel Flag | 4/14/1990 | See Source »

House resident Lamonte Lucas '91, a former member of the College's race relations advisory committee and former committee chair for the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association, reported that on November 29 he discovered a lost computer disk on his doorstep with a note reading, "NIGGER". The disk's contents were damaged or erased, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett House Responds To Racial Harassment | 12/12/1989 | See Source »

...room to find my disk on my threshold. Needless to say, I was pleased at its return. However, when I was about to place it in its box, I noticed that someone had written a note to me. It consisted of one world and was written like this: "NIGGER...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racism on Campus | 12/5/1989 | See Source »

BOOT IN MOUTH DISEASE. Houston City Councilman Jim Westmoreland, who is running for re-election this week, suggested that instead of renaming the city's airport for the late African American Congressman Mickey Leland, it should be called "Nigger International." Westmoreland later explained that he had said "Negro International," but had been misunderstood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine: Nov. 13, 1989 | 11/13/1989 | See Source »

...person's a certain color, I have not been that way. There's hostility sometimes, say, when you're making an arrest, one of the friends will say, 'Get your cracker ass outta here!' And I might respond with a four-letter word to them on the side. No 'Nigger, this' stuff or nothin' like that. I don't talk like that to people; I refuse to, even with all the 'cracker' stuff. I might grab a guy and say, 'You s.o.b., why would you be callin' me "cracker"? You got somethin' ! against me?' And then he'll think about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White Cop, Black Ghetto | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

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