Comments on: Flat denial http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/flat-denial/ A blog mostly about language Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:30:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: the ridger http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/flat-denial/#comment-17588 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:14:06 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=9385#comment-17588 That’s right up there with Lynn Westmoreland – a man old enough to be in Congress and born and raised in Georgia – claiming he’d never heard ‘uppity’ used as racially.

]]> By: arnold zwicky http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/flat-denial/#comment-17468 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:39:34 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=9385#comment-17468 From Wilson Gray on Facebook:

Used as a disparaging term for any member of any socially, economically, or politically deprived group of people. As in John Lennon’s, “Woman is the nigger of the world.”

And Jerry Farber’s 1967 “The Student as Nigger”.

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