Sentence examples for good negro from inspiring English sources

Robinson is the churchgoer, the "good Negro".

"[I have not] become 'a good negro samba singer' as they would wish all blacks to do who really know their place".

More than once they have been foiled in their attempts to find an unimpeachable citizen — a "good Negro" — around whom to build a public campaign challenging segregation.

To vote, he said, "blacks had to get a written statement from a white businessman to say they were 'a good Negro.' " Whether the statement was thought adequate was up to the whim of a white sheriff.

Satan has not actually come to call in this tense moment from "The Good Negro," a skillful new historical drama by Tracey Scott Wilson that opened on Monday night at the Public Theater.

Many a good Negro heavy has had to depend on sparring for a steady living, stars unsually train only four weeks for a bout and fight at most two or three times each year.

"Plenty of good Negroes," it proclaims, "non-quality sold by the dozen".

In the Old South, black men and women who were competent, confident speakers on matters of importance were termed "disrespectful," the implication being that all good Negroes bowed, scraped, grinned and deferred to their white betters.

Hearing, apparently, what they wanted to hear, not the fullness of what Washington wanted them to hear, anxious White people of power and influence certified him a 'good and safe' Negro and promptly made him their go-to Negro designated by them as "the Leader of the Negro people".

The other is the almost always Oscar-worthy "Black people turn other cheek while foot is placed in ass over and over, but never raise a fist in retaliation because they're good, magical Negroes meant to cure us of our erectile dysfunction and high golf handicap".

"It will be good to have a Negro in the White House," one of the hosts said.