Word: niggerness
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...black and white. "I want to be known as a talented young filmmaker. That should be first," he says. "But the reality today is that no matter how successful you are, you're black first. You know what Malcolm X says: 'What's a black with a Ph.D.? A nigger.' Why should I spend my time and energy getting around that. I know who I am, and I'm comfortable with that . . . It's difficult because I don't have the luxury white filmmakers have. Hollywood makes 500 films a year. How many of those are black films...
...optimism of Black students during the late 1970s and early 1980s is being replaced by the realization that racism is alive and seething in the hearts and minds of the American populace. This awakening comes from the stark realities of being Black in America. It comes from being called nigger in the classroom and the boardroom rather than just in railroad stations and at bus stops. It is the realization that a middle-class or upper-class or educated Black is still, in the eyes of white America, just Black. A Harvard degree does not take away your color...
...wasn't negative to them -- it was unifying. When they got off the boat, the second word they learned was "nigger." Ask them -- I grew up with them. I remember in the fifth grade a smart little boy who had just arrived and didn't speak any English. He sat next to me. I read well, and I taught him to read just by doing it. I remember the moment he found out that I was black -- a nigger. It took him six months; he was told. And that's the moment when he belonged, that was his entrance. Every...
During the past few days, several minority students have received harassing telephone calls in their rooms, said John M. Robinson, Brown's dean of student life. In addition, the parents of one student were called late at night and told their son was a "nigger-lover," Robinson said...
...regents were responding to a series of obnoxious acts by white students. Last fall the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity staged a mock slave auction, complete with some pledges in blackface. More recently, white male students have trailed black female students, shouting, "I've never tried a nigger before." Some civil libertarians have complained, however, that the new rule violates constitutional guarantees of free speech, no matter how irresponsibly that right is exercised...