<<<Or we could marry the two questions and ask why
Chester Himes could get away using "nigger" over and over
again in 1959's THE REAL COOL KILLERS, but had to substitute
"raper" for "fucker" when having his African American
characters speak to each other, thus having the unlikely
words
"mother-raper" appear over and over again in their Harlem
vernacular.>>>
Because Himes' characters all got sent to the Group W bench
when they were drafted with the mother stabbers and the
litterbugs.
(And ten points to anyone who gets that joke.)
Jim Winter, just a half a mile from the railroad track.
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