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...went through the interrogation a hundred times this summer. Sometimes I won, when I was a faceless white man, up to no ill. If I spiced my conversation with, "You sure know how to keep things in order down here" (translation: you ain't lettin' them niggers run around crazy like in the North), or if I chortled at the constant "nigger" jokes in the gas stations, I won. If I took pictures of "No Colored" signs, stirred up trouble in the wrong side of town, or stayed with black families, I lost...
...Silver Moon is not one of the South's classier joints. Its clientele consists of truck drivers and farmers, and the conversation runs to items like "Ah dam near runned over a nigger on the way into Mobile last week." I had come there to soak up the seamy atmosphere and tuck it away into my group of Southern Observations. So the men sat and talked, I sat and tucked, and eventually I left with no overt threats hanging over my head...
...soon learned about another side of the Silver Moon. When I was in the cafe, I was a clean-cut white boy. When my friend was there, he was a "white nigger." The students working for the project had incurred Selma's hatred as "them boys livin' with the niggers over on First Street," and now they were instantly recognizable on the streets...
When 15 challenged teachers tried to enter one junior high school, the way was blocked by a jeering crowd. Police who fought to clear a path met cries of "racist cops!" "You nigger!" a black demonstrator shouted at Assistant Chief Inspector Lloyd Sealy, one of the city's top Negro cops. "You plotted this with those racist white pigs, you traitor!" After three protesters were arrested, the teachers got into the building, but none were given assignments...
...someone I knew on the plane. The man, born in Georgia, had a Wallace sticker on his car. He drove us back to his house for a drink and while there said, "Excuse me, I have to wash my hands. I shook hands a while back with a nigger." Of course, I thought it best to say nothing to him about his politics. But three days later I feel the same way about the whole GOP convention...