Word: slaving
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...first as a Negro; he can become an individual, but only for a few intimates. A good example of this is the case of the light-skinned "Negro," the "passer." While liberals try to move forward, their attitude in this area is essentially that long ago erected by the slave owners: a man is either totally white, or he is black. There is no gray. Liberal friends of mine condemn a person because he, being 1/16 "colored," says he is white and "passes" for white; he is "rejecting his heritage." (It is no paradox that most of the leaders...
...this community is based chiefly on a collective impulse toward self-defense. Americans may think that both parties are equally threatened by the Soviet Union. But many Europeans do not. Only so long as their dependence on America weighs lightly will Western Europeans prefer American suzerainty to Russia. A slave is a slave no matter who his master; a Western Europe Stalinized by the United States would have nothing to fear from being Stalinized by Russia. You can only be Stalinized once...
...until the inevitable turning point when the un-chic join them in sufficient numbers to drive them somewhere else, and the word again goes round that "Nobody goes there any more, my dear." One island so In that almost no body knows about it is Barbuda, an 18th century slave-breeding ground 15 miles long by about five wide, with one hotel called Coco Point Lodge, where Britain's Princess Margaret came on her honeymoon to stay two days, and lingered on for five. Ten-room Coco Point is so posh that its staff has a staff, quartered...
...Louis one evening last week, a tall, commanding-looking Negro in a dark suit and vest walked into the main rotunda of the city's Old Courthouse. For 30 minutes, he stood there and told TV viewers the story of the slave Sam Blow who picked up the nickname Great Scott-pronounced Dred Scott in Sam Blow's Gullah accent-whose suit was tried twice in that courthouse...
George Frazier is a man of muscular opinions. To him, Harry Belafonte is "America's number one slave"; Mississippi's Governor Ross Barnett is a "son of a bitch"; Roger Maris is a "fink" and Mickey Mantle is an "unfrocked fink." In Frazier's considered judgment, "all hockey players are crazy," all Texans are "a little ridiculous," and Brooks Brothers "is like a giant class reunion...