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...Jeffries entered the ring on July 4, 1910, with American flags on his trunks, proclaiming that he would give Johnson "the licking of his life." The record-breaking crowd cheered for all it was worth. Then Johnson stepped into the ring to an anvil chorus of passionate booing and nigger baiting. Two years before, Johnson had won the title after pursuing the white champion around the world to get the fight and around the ring during it. On this hot day in Reno, Johnson toyed with his opponent. Hitting him at will with either hand, Johnson mocked Jeffries...
...goin' lady" who taught him "respectafulness," but he began questioning things that black kids were not supposed to question. Nicknamed Billy, supposedly because he could hit like a billy club, he was soon getting into scrapes with the Man. Once when he was 14, a white man called him nigger. Joe called the man cracker. As Joe recalls it now, "The man said, 'Come here, boy, and I'll straighten you out.' I told him, 'You come here,' and he did and, man, I straightened that fella out." Mamma?who forbade him to play football because she thought...
...anti-black prejudice, which is strong in Negroes who are secretly ashamed of their blackness. Poussaint and Comer cite the case of a Government official's wife who preferred her light-skinned son to his darker brother and sometimes told the latter, "You act just like a nigger...
...like to stay in Soul Alley, or something like it, but wonder whether they can. "I don't want to go back to the States, and certainly not back to Houston, Texas," said a black G.I. who is married to a Vietnamese. "They would call me a 'nigger' and my wife a 'gook,' and they would never leave us alone. But I can't get a civilian job here when I get out of the service...
...times onstage, Jones has, if anything, grown fresher. He does not act the part so much as consume it, then let it shine out of his eyes and resound in his mouth: "If I lets it go too long, then everybody say, now ain't dat one shiftless nigger . . . an' if I chop him down quick, then dey holler dat po' man up dere fightin' a go-rilla!" When white folks watch, Jefferson plays animal or vegetable. The 250-watt Satchmo grin flicks on at will, the massive shoulders shrug at circumstances beyond comprehension. But under...