“When I was a cop me and my partner saw plenty of his handiwork. Yeah, we pulled his handiwork out a the water by the docks, we saw it in the bloody alleys, we saw it in cars burnt up on the side of the roads…” WarHistoricalSoldierCorruptionDramaticDevastationThreatsChallengingPiRacial Slurs Book:Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss Source: Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss
“I learned a strange thing... that in a jumble of unintelligible talk, the word "nigger" leaps out with electric clarity. You always hear it and it always stings. And always it casts the person using it into a category of brute ignorance. I thought with some amusement that if these two women only knew what they were revealing about themselves to every Negro on that bus, they would have been outraged.” IgnoranceHatredVulgaritySlursRacial Slurs Book:Black Like Me Source: Black Like Me