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...this world with perspective, respect and great decency; it is one of the book's triumphs. "Poor we were," the elder Presley says, "but trash we weren't. We never had any prejudice." Presley may have been easygoing, but when the country performer Ira Louvin called him "a white nigger," Presley stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Comet Over Tennessee | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...That was the nicest thing the Ramos family says it ever heard from the Krafts, who are all unemployed except for Marie, 65, who assembles door parts in a factory. Isidor Ramos, 40, a black 19-year veteran of the Chicago police department, says the Krafts called him a "nigger" and his wife, a Puerto Rican, a "spic." Daughter Mindy, 20, has been called a "spic whore"; Ivan, 12, a "little nigger"; and Mychall, 9, a "little spic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evict Thy Neighbor | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

Luntz attacked Kennedy for making religion an issue in the earlier stages of the campaign. He said that Kennedy's criticism of his opponent's Mormon religion was comparable to Sen. Conrad Burns' use of the word "nigger" in a public forum...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: IOP Panel Predicts Kennedy Victory | 10/27/1994 | See Source »

...name, right? So you make him do the work. 'Hey, homey, get me a car. A red car. A red sports car. By tonight. I'm taking my woman out. Or hey, homey, go find me $50. Or hey, little homey, you wanna be big? Go pop that nigger that's messing with our business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Murder In Miniature | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...with bad grades a year later. Without a student deferment, he was conscripted into the South African Defense Force, where he found upholding the apartheid regime loathsome. Once, after he took the side of a black mess-hall waiter, some Afrikaans-speaking soldiers called him a kaffir-boetie ("nigger lover") and beat him up. In 1980 Carter went absent without leave, rode a motorcycle to Durban and, calling himself David, became a disk jockey. He longed to see his family but felt too ashamed to return. One day after he lost his job, he swallowed scores of sleeping pills, pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Life and Death of Kevin Carter | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

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