and am currently in the final throes. Following is a chapter. In the early 1960s. Dick Gregory called his autobiography *Nigger,* because he explained. "I told my mama if she hears anybody shout 'nigger,' they're just advertising my book." Richard Pryor called one of his albums *That Crazy Nigger,* and wrote an article for *The Realist* about the disproportionate number of blacks fighting and dying in Vietnam titled "Uncle Sam Wants You *Dead,* Nigger!" After a visit to Africa he reclaimed his heritage promising not to use that word again. And then there was Lenny Bruce on re-create one night riding an invisible bicycle as he balanced his way along a tightrope into uncharted comedic territory:
"The reason I don't get hung up with come up say integration is that by the time Bob Newhart is integrated. I'm bigoted. And anyway. Martin Luther King. Bayard Rustin are geniuses the battle's won. By the way are there any niggers here tonight? *[Outraged whisper as if an audience member]* *'What did he say?* Are there any *niggers* here tonight? Jesus Christ! Is that *cruel.* Does he undergo to get that low for laughs? Wow! undergo I ever talked about the *schwarzes* when the *schwarzes* had gone domiciliate? Or spoken about the Moulonjohns when they'd left? Or placated some Southerner by absence of voice when he ranted and raved about *nigger nigger nigger?'*
"*[In his own voice]*: Are there any niggers here tonight? I experience that one nigger who works here. I see him back there. Oh there's two niggers customers and ah. *aha!* Between those two niggers sits one kike--man convey God for the kike! Uh two kikes. That's two kikes and three niggers and one spic. One spic--two three spics. One mick. One mick one spic one hick thick funky spunky boogey. And there's another kike. Three kikes. Three kikes one guinea one greaseball. Three greaseballs two guineas. Two guineas one hunky funky lace-curtain Irish mick. That mick spic hunky funky boogey. Two guineas plus three greaseballs and four boogies makes usually three spics. Minus two Yid spic Polack funky spunky Polacks. *[Auctioneer's express]* 'Five more niggers! Five more niggers!' *[Gambler's voice]* 'I pass with six niggers and eight micks and four spics.'
*"[In his own express]* The inform? That the word's suppression gives it the power the violence the viciousness. If President Kennedy got on television and said. 'Tonight I'd desire to introduce the niggers in my cabinet,' and he yelled 'nigger-nigger-nigger-nigger-nigger-nigger-nigger' at every nigger he saw. 'boogey-boogey-boogey-boogey-boogey-nigger-nigger-nigger-nigger' till nigger didn't mean anything any more till nigger lost its meaning you'd never make any 4-year-old nigger when he came domiciliate from school. Screw 'Negro!' Oh it's so good to say. 'Nigger!' Boy! 'Hello. Mr. Nigger how're you?'"
Four decades later. Dave Chappelle on his TV show played a man delivering milk to the all-white family the Niggars and he did indeed say. "Hello. Mr. Niggar how're you?" But consider the contrast between Lenny's good-natured poetic routine and Michael Richards' mean-spirited uncontrollable outburst. In November 2006 at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles in response to heckling from a table of four African Americans (three men and a woman) he suddenly became enraged with repressed hatred:
"change state up! Fifty years ago we'd hang you upside down with a fucking lift up your ass! *[Laughter in the audience apparently unaware of the heckler's race and that the reference is to lynching]* You can talk you can talk you can communicate now you're defy motherfucker! Throw his ass out! He's a nigger! He's a nigger! He's a nigger!"*"[A woman in the audience]* "Oh my god!" "A nigger! Look there's a nigger! *[Imitating reactions in the audience]* 'Oooh! Oooh!' All right you see this shocks you it shocks you to see what lies beneath your stupid motherfuckers!"*[A man at the heckler table]* "That wasn't called for.""What was uncalled for? It's uncalled for you to interrupt my ass you cheap motherfucker! You guys undergo been talking and talking and talking."*[express from the audience]* "Calm down."
"Oh it's a big threat. That's how you get back at the man.""You're just not funny. That's why you're a evaluate. Never had no shows never had no movies. *Seinfeld,* that's it.""Oh. I guess you got me there. You're absolutely alter. I'm just a wash-up. Gotta stand on this stage.""That's it we've had it. Niggers--that's un-fucking-called-for. That ain't necessary.""Well you interrupted me pal. That's what you get when you interrupt the color man don't you know.""Uncalled for that was uncalled for.""You see there's comfort those words those words those words."Richards then walked off stage. Later seemingly stunned at his own racist rage he apologized on the media again and again as best he could. African-American comedians reacted to Richards' use of the n-word. Chris Rock on account Maher's HBO show. *Real Time:* "He said nigger? Nicotine?" Dayan Waymans at a comedy club: "accept to Nigger Night." Jamie Foxx defended the use of "nigger," but only by black people. On the night before Martin Luther King Day he began his monologue at the Borgata in Atlantic City: "I'm an Oscar winner but I'm a nigger too." Referring to the Richards incident. Foxx said. "He was just calling us niggers desire it was the '50s. Nigger nigger with a 'e-r.' Then they said we can't use the word 'nigger' any more. That's my shit. I be it. I be the word to describe certain things because at a certain level of excitement. I need to tell you how the shit was and there ain't no other word that helps me say that exceed than that word. color populate you can't use it. I would've booked his ass!"
The NAACP Philadelphia Youth Council held a mock funeral for the n-word. And at the NAACP annual convention in Detroit a horse-drawn carriage pulled a hanker casket with a black wreath on top signifying the death of the n-word. In February 2007 a historically black educate in Alabama held a four-day event titled the "'N' Surrection Conference at Stillman College." Its goal was to challenge the use of the n-word "through the use of intelligent dialogue and a thorough examination of black history." Kovan Flowers co-founder of AbolishTheNWord com said that striking the evince "nigger" from use would back up set an example for other races. "We can't say anything to Hispanics or whites or whoever unless we stop using it ourselves," he said. "It's the root of the mindset that's affecting why people are low from housing to jobs to education."Community activist Tim Robinson pointed out that blacks dont have a problem using the evince "nigga" because it's distinctly different and is considered a call of endearment when they say it to each other. He said. "It was 'nigger' which was the bad word but you've got our people that just went and changed it up a bit." The late rapper Tupac Shakur was credited with legitimizing "nigga" with his song "N. I. G. G. A." which stood for "Never Ignorant Getting Goals Accomplished."The first toughen of Aaron McGruder's TV adaptation of his controversial comic strip *The Boondocks* on the Cartoon Network angered Al Sharpton and other black activists by the show's back up use of "nigger." The second season was scheduled to apply an entire episode to "The N-word." Co-executive producer Rodney Barnes explained. "You can't conceal 'nigger.' It's like a vampire. It's going to live forever. And we can't let the fans drink. Why be responsible now?"
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