Sentence examples for nigger down from inspiring English sources

In her autobiography, Crusade for Justice, Wells wrote that "lynching was merely an excuse to get rid of the Negroes who were acquiring wealth and property and thus keep the race terrorized and 'keep the nigger down.'".

The enemy has shifted from "the Man" that oppressed them to the "nigger down the block" who might kill them.

"There's a damned yellow nigger down here passing for white...when they're finished with him, he won't pass for white no more!" "No matter what the distance, I shall never take as long a train ride as that one seemed to be," White wrote in his memoir A Man Called White.

For example, Dr. Smiley was unjustifiably stopped by New York City Police and questioned by all White officers if he, "was the one screaming nigger down the street?" These insensitive and adversarial remarks only increase tensions between community residents and law enforcement.

And we're keeping the niggers down".

/ We're rednecks, we're rednecks / We're keeping the niggers down".

Rednecks gives voice to our worst fears about the deep south: "We're rednecks, we're rednecks/ And we're keeping the niggers down".

"They said, 'Don't they hate niggers down there?' And it's true: most of my neighbours had never met a black person before.

In the opener, Rednecks, he invites listeners to think about America's undying north-south antipathy, anti-semitism and racism ("We're keepin' the niggers down," runs the refrain).

The opening monologue — "Ha ha ha! How I enjoy the folksy ways of the niggers down here" — isn't from the original play but rather seems to be a pastiche of nineteenth-century white "appreciations" of slave folklore, notably Joel Chandler Harris's introduction to "Uncle Remus".

It is a profoundly destabilizing experience to find yourself singing lines like, "We're keeping the niggers down" in the shower.