Word: niggerness
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...baggage" that blacks brought over from Africa. Rather, violence is something blacks learned in the U.S. "For most of their history in this country, in fact, blacks were victims, not initiators, of violence." As one Southern police official summed up justice for blacks before World War I, "If a nigger kills a white man, that's murder. If a white man kills a nigger, that's justifiable homicide. If a nigger kills another nigger, that's one less nigger." Or, as a Negro blues song put it, "White folks and nigger in great Co't house/ Like Cat down Cellar...
...years and countless albums and groups later, I feel so twisted, so confused and maze-mad; "Rock'n'Roll Nigger" Patti Smith and Bruce Springsteen and Lou Reed slip through the rock world of packaging-marketing-publicity and make me want to tear down buildings like I did when I first heard The Who and The Stones (but their music--ah, the beauty of it--consumed that urge...
...trial proceeded, the threat of violence was never far. Two bomb scares emptied the courtroom, and police confiscated several automatic weapons. Defense lawyers monitored CB radio conversations that called for the jury to "hang the nigger." Cullman Mayor Bob McGluckin vowed that the authorities could maintain order. Said he: "We have a peaceful, law-abiding community. We do not like outside people coming in and exerting a detrimental influence...
...When the black was stabbed by the Hell's Angel at the end of the movie, they screamed 'Kill the nigger,' the eyewitness added...
...Ronald Dellums (D-Ca.) once grouped students, with others, in "the Nigger vote," part of "all the people left out of the political process." Until we see ourselves that way, and until we develop our own movement to break the bonds of such a role, student freedom at Harvard will remain subject to the kind of arbitrary attack that is now occurring throughout the University. For now, any pre-freshmen looking forward to a sojourn in "the continuing body of reason itself," should forget...