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Earlier this year, searches for "nigger house" globally and searches for "nigger king" in Washington DC turned up results for the White House, the residence of the US president, Barack Obama.
In what appears to be a result of Google bombing — where vandals flood a certain keyword with links to a place, meaning that the two will become associated in Google's results — users forced searches for "nigger house" and "nigger king" to redirect to the White House.
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Appropriating its name from Malcolm X's speech addressing the mentality of "house niggers and field niggers," the New York City-based film examines the sorrowful lives of a group of transients who gather in Harlem on 125th Street and Lexington Avenue.
"If a nigger call your house, the first thing you're going to think is he's trying to steal something," Jimmy said.
This was the contradiction highlighted two weeks ago, on "Real Time with Bill Maher," when, as part of a failed punch line, the host referred to himself as a "house nigger".
Senator, I'm a house nigger!" Some viewers on Twitter quickly called for Maher to be fired, arguing the obvious: that no white man should say the word "nigger".
But read between the lines, "The Measure of a Man" is a self-defense brief, deployed against critics who attacked him during the 1960's as an "Uncle Tom" and a "house nigger".
As a boy, he sees his father shot dead by the young white master, and, in an act of generosity (as it's presented to him), he is trained as a "house nigger" by the master's mother (Vanessa Redgrave).
Thus, the fictional Cecil Gaines lives an extraordinary life that takes him from the cotton fields of Macon, Georgia (where his mother is raped and his father shot) to the corridors of the White House (where only the serving staff are black) via an apprenticeship that teaches him to first embrace and then to reject the term "house nigger" as servitude turns toward empowerment.
A particularly peculiar display took place on Friday night on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," when a parade of black guests was brought on air to chastise the host for his flippant use of the phrase "house nigger" in a segment the week before.
I'll teach you how to be a house nigger".
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