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“I was ten when Mike Smiley, half-Indian, skinny, brown-skinned, brought the word jigaboo to school like lunch, or the flu, fed him by his adopted white father who said that's what we called them then. By noon it was done--everyone had a name for what had been bothering them, some thing utterly human as hate.” — Kevin Young
I was ten when
Mike Smiley, half-Indian,
skinny, brown-skinned,
brought the word jigaboo
to school
like lunch, or the flu,
fed him by his adopted
white father who said
that's what we called
them then. By noon
it was done--everyone
had a name for what had been
bothering them, some
thing utterly human
as hate.