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Hugh Dalton, offered the Colonial Office during Attlee's 1945-51 Labour government, turned it down because "I had a horrid vision of pullulating, poverty stricken, diseased nigger communities, for whom one can do nothing in the short run and who, the more one tries to help them, are querulous and ungrateful".
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We were trying to get rid of the nigger in our community and in ourselves.
Using local slang for the policy that even in Black Harlem restricted "Negros" to theatre balconies; novelist Carl Van Vechten dubbed the community "Nigger Heaven".
The first few results in a Google search for Voat, a site that prides itself on a "zero censorship" policy, include links to the communities "Fatpeoplehate" and "Niggers".
As I occasionally point out to my children, It's kind of hard for me, twenty six years into being part of a black community, to differentiate nigger from fuck, suck, shit, bitch, ho, motherfucker, cunt, and all the other trash language that we hear on the street, and on radio, TV and the internet twenty four hours a goddamn day.
One way of overcoming the harmful power of certain words is to reclaim them in the way that some in the black community have reclaimed the word nigger.
"Nigger braids".
"Pick, nigger.
"Like nigger".
Fucking nigger".
Jesus Christ was a nigger.
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