Word: rap
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Easy to Spot. Rather than harass the hippies, Fink opens the doors of his precinct house and invites them in to "rap" (chat, deriving from "rapport") about their complaints. He does them favors, offers them free tickets to local shows, once wrote a letter of recommendation for a scholarship-seeking hippie who wanted to return to college. Above all, he speaks their language; when rapping with a hippie, for example, Fink usually calls his own police "the fuzz...
Violence, Rap Brown observed, "is as American as cherry pie." History that most whites would rather forget supports him. Quite aside from the Ku Klux Klan's brand of oppression in the South, Northern whites rampaged against Negroes in riots in New York City; Springfield, Ohio; Greensburg, Ind.; Springfield, Ill.; East St. Louis, Ill.; and Detroit long before Negro upheavals came into vogue. The U.S. Civil Rights Commission counted 2,595 lynchings of Negroes in Southern states between 1882 and 1959. Not one resulted in a white man's conviction. Den nis Clark, writing in the Jesuit magazine...
Having restored order with National Guard and federal troops, he summoned about 100 of the city's black moderate leaders to a conference. Agnew dressed them down like a prison warden. He accused them of conspiring with such black radicals as Rap Brown and suggested that they had abdicated their leadership. "I publicly repudiate all white racists," he said. "I call upon you to publicly repudiate all black racists. This, so far, you have not been willing to do." Seventy of the Negroes angrily rose and walked out. State Senator Verda Welcome, who had praised Agnew as "a wonderful, honest...
...through to the show's moderator, Del Shields. In case the conversation gets libelous or licentious, Shields can push a cut-off button, but he has not yet had to use it. Though the discussion is frequently fiery, about the roughest language used to date was Rap Brown's dismissal of civil rights legislation as "intellectual masturbation...
Poor Strange falters in the line of duty and gets sent up for a couple of years. Bum rap, that, but the audience is treated worse: sitting through The Strange Affair is as bad as a stretch of solitary...