nigras

"You may call the nigras a nuisance provided you love them, too -- that will satisfy even the sternest abolitionist."

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

"You may call the nigras a nuisance provided you love them, too -- that will satisfy even the sternest abolitionist."

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

Since when was the average Republican deterred by the fear of being racially insensitive (my mother and stepfather, both ardent Republicans, still refer to blacks as "nigras")?

Obama Expanding His Lead In The Tracking Polls 2009

LBJ may have called blacks "nigras," he passed the first and only civil rights bills since the Civil War.

Obama Campaign Co-Chair Questions Hillary's Tears 2009

LBJ may have called blacks "nigras," he passed the first and only civil rights bills since the Civil War.

Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Campaign Co-Chair Questions Hillary's Tears 2009

In my very clear memory, the whole bulk of the senior Democrats routinely called blacks "nigras" and voted against any kind of civil rights laws, right down to anti-lynching laws.

Archive 2006-10-01 2006

I was tired of hearing her say the "nigras" this or the "nigras" that.

Oral History Interview with Joanne Peerman, February 24, 2001. Interview K-0557. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 2001

Powerful House Agriculture Appropriations Chair Jamie Whitten from Mississippi complained to Senator George McGovern that, if "hunger was not a problem, nigras won't work," and that McGovern was promoting revolution by seeking an improvement in food stamp benefits, which Whitten thought would be used for "frivolity and wine."

Joel Berg: Racism, Dr. King, and Food Stamps Joel Berg 2012

Powerful House Agriculture Appropriations Chair Jamie Whitten from Mississippi complained to Senator George McGovern that, if "hunger was not a problem, nigras won't work," and that McGovern was promoting revolution by seeking an improvement in food stamp benefits, which Whitten thought would be used for "frivolity and wine."

Joel Berg: Racism, Dr. King, and Food Stamps Joel Berg 2012

Powerful House Agriculture Appropriations Chair Jamie Whitten from Mississippi complained to Senator George McGovern that, if "hunger was not a problem, nigras won't work," and that McGovern was promoting revolution by seeking an improvement in food stamp benefits, which Whitten thought would be used for "frivolity and wine."

Joel Berg: Racism, Dr. King, and Food Stamps Joel Berg 2012