In explaining his refusal to be conscripted to fight the Vietnam War ( 1965 – 75 ), professional boxer Muhammed Ali said, " No Vietcong ever called me nigger "; later, his modified answer was the title No Vietnamese Ever Called Me Nigger ( 1968 ) of a documentary about the front-line lot of the US Army Black soldier in combat in Vietnam.

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.

* During the Spanish – American War US Army General John J. Pershing's original nickname, Nigger Jack, given to him as an instructor at West Point because of his service with " Buffalo Soldier " units, was euphemized to Black Jack by reporters.

* In 1960, a stand at the stadium in Toowoomba, Australia, was named the " E. S. ' Nigger ' Brown Stand " honoring 1920s rugby league player Edward Stanley Brown, so nicknamed since early life because of his pale white skin ; so known all his life, his tombstone is engraved Nigger.

" Nigger Head Mountain ", at Burnet, Texas, was so named because the forest atop it resembled a black man's hair.

In 1966, the US First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, denounced the racist name, asking the U. S. Board on Geographic Names and the U. S. Forest Service to rename it, becoming " Colored Mountain " in 1968 ; and in West Texas, " Dead Nigger Creek " was renamed " Dead Negro Draw ".

" Nigger Nate Grade ", near Temecula, California, named for Nate Harrison, an ex-slave and settler, was renamed " Nathan Harrison Grade Road " in 1955, at the request of the NAACP.

A point on the Lower Mississippi River, in West Baton Rouge Parish, named " Free Nigger Point " until the late twentieth century, first was renamed " Free Negro Point ", but currently is named " Wilkinson Point ".

" Nigger Head Rock ", protruding from a cliff above Highway 421, north of Pennington Gap, Virginia, was renamed " Great Stone Face " in the 1970s.

This access was then used to embed an Iframe redirect to the Gay Nigger Association of America's shock site " Last Measure " into every page on the site.

Epic Records ' version of the tribute album, which included two additional covers (" Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey " and " Thank You ( Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin )") was released in January 2006.

In a 1972 interview on the Dick Cavett Show, John Lennon stated that James Connolly was an inspiration for his song, Woman Is the Nigger of the World.

The mission codes ( transmitted in morse ) were: Goner, meaning " bomb dropped "; Nigger, meaning that the Möhne was breached and ; Dinghy meaning that the Eder was breached.

" Nigger " was the name of Gibson's dog, a black labrador retriever that had been run over and killed on the morning of the attack.

When asked why he chose that name, Bern said it was a tribute to the book Nigger by Dick Gregory.

In 2008, Serrano's piece " The Interpretation of Dreams ( White Nigger )" was selected to participate in The Renaissance Society's group exhibit, " Black Is, Black Ain't ".

Nigger was and still is a word of disrespect.

Nigger, a Wing Commander's dog who was also a feature of the film, was buried in the grounds of the RAF station after he was run over and killed by a car on the nearby road.

" It was not surprising to hear the gentlemen from New York defend the Communist enclave ," Rankin bellowed, saying that he wanted it known that the American people are not in sympathy " with that Nigger Communist and that bunch of Reds who went up there.

Guy Gibson also owned a black Labrador named Nigger, who was the mascot of the squadron for some time.

Hagan appealed to the United Nations, winning a committee recommendation to the Australian federal government, that it force the Queensland state government to remove the word nigger from the " E. S. ' Nigger ' Brown Stand " name.

** Little Nigger Boys: Another name after the before mentioned battle.

Nigger is a noun in the English language, most notable for its usage in a pejorative context to refer to black people, and also as an informal slang term, among other contexts.

As recently as the 1950s, it may have been acceptable British usage to say niggers when referring to black people, notable in mainstream usages such as Nigger Boy – brand candy cigarettes, and the color nigger brown or simply nigger ( dark brown );

The white photographer and writer, Carl Van Vechten, a supporter of the Harlem Renaissance ( 1920s – 30s ), provoked controversy in the black community with the title of his novel Nigger Heaven ( 1926 ), wherein the usage increased sales ; of the controversy, Langston Hughes wrote:

" Nigger " is used by soldiers of both races in jokes and as expressions of bravado (" put a nigger behind the trigger ", says the black Corporal " Eightball "), with racial differences among the men seen as secondary to their shared exposure to the dangers of combat: Gunnery Sergeant Hartman ( R. Lee Ermey ) says, " There is no racial bigotry here.

In 1897, Joseph Conrad penned a novella titled The Nigger of the Narcissus, whose titular character, James Wait, is a West Indian black sailor on board the merchant ship Narcissus sailing from Bombay to London.

* Nigger – Common euphemism for " nigger " or " nigga ": viz., variant forms of a word commonly used in a derogatory way meaning or relating to black people, the latter form a colloquial reference typically utilized without malice and within the black community itself

She was taken to the emergency room, where the words " KKK ", " Nigger ", and " Bitch " were discovered written on her torso with a black substance described as charcoal.

He later addressed the text in depth in an essay titled, On Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven, where he called the novel, " an affront to the hospitality of black folk and to the intelligence of white.

Many white critics of the time, largely ignorant of emerging black authors, had little to compare Nigger Heaven to, and viewed the novel as an enlightening, forward-minded text.

In the preface, Dick Gregory ( whose autobiography was entitled Nigger ) writes: " In abolishing and eliminating the Caucasian-Christian philosophical and literary forms while recording his black experiences, this writer has removed himself from their double-standard frames of reference.

" Nigger ", which has become a racist insult in American culture, derives from the Spanish / Portuguese word negro, meaning " black ", and the French nègre.

In one 1989 interview, he stated that he had used the word to signify " somebody that is basically a pain in your life, a problem ... the word nigger doesn't necessarily mean black ," and referenced the John Lennon song " Woman Is the Nigger of the World " as using the word in a positive context.

Some claim that the books use language that may be unacceptable in modern society, while others argue that the language used is but a product of the times and representative of a period when such language was commonplace ; for example, Sudden rides a black horse named Nigger.

Bicentennial Nigger won him his third Grammy award in three years and went top 5 in the black charts.

The grave of his dog, Nigger, run over and killed the day before Operation Chastise, can still be seen at Scampton.

In 1999, the British television network ITV broadcast a censored version with each of the twelve utterances of Nigger deleted.

Nigger pussy.

One of the last scenes includes Ice-T and Body Count playing with Jane's Addiction in a version of the Sly and the Family Stone song " Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey.

Father Goose, His Book contains poems such as " There Was a Little Nigger Boy " and " Lee-Hi-Lung-Whan.

Because they've exploited — we have seen the — we have seen the Nigger and Greaseball, we've seen the Chink, we've seen the slit-eyed dangerous Jap, we have seen the wily Filipino, we've seen everything but we never saw the Kike.

" A 1967 pamphlet, The Student as Nigger, attempted to cast students as a marginalized class.

Nineteenth-century English ( language ) literature features usages of nigger without racist connotation, e. g. the Joseph Conrad novella The Nigger of the ' Narcissus ' ( 1897 ).

Likewise, P. G. Wodehouse used the phrase " Nigger minstrels " in Thank You, Jeeves ( 1934 ), the first Jeeves – Bertie novel, in admiration of their artistry and musical tradition.

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

In the US and the UK, the word nigger featured in branding and packaging consumer products, e. g. " Nigger Hair Tobacco " and " Niggerhead Oysters ", Brazil nuts were called nigger toes, et cetera.

* Nigger as " defect " ( a hidden problem ), derives from " nigger in the woodpile ", a US slave-era phrase denoting escaped slaves hiding in train-transported woodpiles.