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...here, but I'm not going to take any pushing around. I'm not going to come 12,000 miles from home to be insulted by some girl in the enlisted men's club who's been hanging around with some whites. She calls me nigger. Why? Somebody taught her.' They don't want to take the same pushing around they took in Philadelphia and Detroit, Hough and Watts. They're not ready for it, and they won't put up with...
...anger of these poets is not with The Man-racism is accepted as an accomplished fact. Instead, their rage is directed toward black people who act the role of "nigger," playing cards, watching T.V., riding subways in their alligator shoes, incapable of effective action...
...born with it, Young learned negotiation early as a black child in New Orleans: "I was taught to fight when people called me nigger. That's when I learned that negotiating was better than fighting." Young's parents (his father was a dentist, his mother a schoolteacher) taught him to read before he was of school age, so he entered elementary school in the third grade. At 19, he was graduated from Howard University, where he was a premedical student. A newly awakened social awareness then steered him toward the Congregational ministry...
...Seventh's racial troubles are by no means caused only by black soldiers, who account for about 12% of the U.S. troops in West Germany. The blacks complain of harassment by white MPs and taunting by NCOs who threaten to "get me a nigger." Last week a Ku Klux Klan-style cross was found burning outside a Mannheim barracks: there have been at least two similar incidents at other Seventh Army bases. The Communist East German daily Neues Deutschland has seized on the cross burnings to portray the U.S. Army in Europe as a sort of K.K.K. expeditionary force...
Fuller uses humor and put-downs as weapons. One cartoon depicts a black executive storming out of an office door on which the title "Head Nigger in Charge" has just been painted. A prostrate white man with a newly acquired black eye is looking after him and saying ruefully, "Ah thought he would be grateful for the advancement." And on the back cover of a recent issue, Fuller put down "poseurs and hustlers playing revolution" or "the Black Militant Game, which is all the rage just now, and which has merits of its own in attention grabbing: a brother...