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The denotations of nigger also comprehend non-white and racially disadvantaged people ; the US politician Ron Dellums said, "... it's time for somebody to lead all of America's niggers ".

Jerry Farber's 1967 protest, The Student as Nigger invoked the word as a metaphor for the victims of an authoritarian society.

In 1969, in the UK, in the course of being interviewed by a Nova magazine reporter, artist Yoko Ono said, "... woman is the nigger of the world "; three years later, her husband, John Lennon, published the song " Woman is the Nigger of the World " ( 1972 )— about the virtually universal exploitation of woman – which was socially and politically controversial to US sensibilities.

In 1978 singer Patti Smith used the word in " Rock N Roll Nigger ".

In 1979 singer Elvis Costello used the phrase white nigger in " Oliver's Army ", a song describing the experiences of working-class soldiers in the British military forces.

Later, the producers of the British talent show Stars in Their Eyes forced a contestant to censor one of its lines, changing "... all it takes is one itchy trigger – One more widow, one less white nigger " to "... one less white figure ".

In his autobiography White Niggers of America: The Precocious Autobiography of a Quebec " Terrorist " ( 1968 ), Pierre Vallières, a Front de libération du Québec leader refers to the oppression of the Québécois people in North America.