Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Intramural standings are not only a matter of House pride. At the end of the season each House accumulates points towards the Strauss cup which is presented to the House with the most points at the end of the year...
...myself, you know, beginning to understand myself, and if you remember, it was about this time that Malcolm began to speak in public. Brothers in the joint began to hear a black man articulating the thing that they couldn't articulate. We began to take a certain pride in being black...
This emerging pride in being black was reflected in changes in the life-style of Hakim and other cons at Jeff City. "They feed a lot of starch and pork in prison. Now anybody that knows anything about diet knows what that does to your body. So we began to educate the brothers about diet so that the brothers was walking past the pork chops. The man couldn't relate to that because it used to be a time brothers used to steal pork chops. But now they was walking past the pork chops and stealing the hamburgers, you know...
...Hakim and many of the other black inmates, this new pride in blackness was related to their involvement in Islam and their subsequent discovery of aspects of black history that had not been a part of the education they had received in the public schools. This discovery awakened in Hakim and his brother cons a desire to obtain other knowledge and skills they had missed. Prevented from obtaining this knowledge in the prison schools because of the tracking system. "We began to conduct our own classes. We had brothers there from Lincoln University and so forth. So the cats began...
...raised up by Garrett is an almost operatic hero. His single weakness is pride, but he is saved from the stiffness of pride by an ironist's self-knowledge. The author manages to make him credible and even more or less persuades the reader to accept such verbal acupuncture as this: "Old it is true. But mark you, sir, I shall never be so old or frail that I could not spit the likes of you on the point of a rapier like a poor sparrow. I would cut you clean from your high beard to your lower...