Word: niggerness
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...last Thursday, according to The Heights. BC sophomore April T. Browne, who identified herself as a friend of the alleged victims, said that all five students were minorities and that they claimed that a female Caucasian student verbally attacked them using racial slurs, including the word “nigger.” “One of them actually kicked one of my friends in the face,” Browne said. Between 100 and 200 students participated in the rally, held in the BC Quad from 11:45 AM to 1 PM. It was organized by the AHANA...
...Thursday morning not unlike any other, I was sitting in Sever Hall listening to a lecture on African-American humor. Suddenly, my classmates and I were jolted out of our intellectual reveries by the sudden utterance of the word “nigger.” This word came tripping not off of the tongue of our professor, but from a white classmate, in the midst of a comment on a joke that a slave (the “nigger” in question) told to his master. This came as such a shock to everyone not simply because...
...white student was the first person in an undergraduate course on African American humor to use the epithet “nigger” in reference to a slave. While the student was in fact the first person to directly refer to the slave as a “nigger,” the course professor had told a joke in which the slave referred to himself in that manner...
...women and black men, Roosevelt was widely villainized. In particular, the thought of race mixing at the highest levels made white Southerners apoplectic. Newspaper headlines roared Roosevelt Dines A Darkey and Our Coon-Flavored President. South Carolina Senator Ben Tillman said, "The action of President Roosevelt in entertaining that nigger will necessitate our killing a thousand niggers in the South before they will learn their place again...
...could see visible signs of love and caring, and whites wanting to, I guess, seek out freedom and equality and justice and to be color blind, but here I am, living in Montgomery, with people who are killing and shooting and calling me a nigger,” she says at the roundtable discussion on Saturday...