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Not who you're looking for? Others named Nigger: racist slur against black people of Melanesian or African de · autobiography by comedian and social activist Dick Gregory, · 1993 single by Clawfinger

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Nigger was a male black labrador retriever belonging to Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Royal Air Force, and the mascot of No. 617 Squadron. Gibson owned the dog when he was previously a member of 106 Squadron. Nigger often accompanied Gibson on training flights and was a great favourite of the members of both 106 and 617 Squadrons. He was noted for his liking of beer, which he drank from his own bowl in the Officers' Mess. Nigger died on 16 May 1943, the day of the famous "Dambusters" raid, when he was hit by a motorist. He was buried at midnight as Gibson was leading the raid. "Nigger" (Morse code: -. .. --. --. . .-. ) was the codeword Gibson used to confirm the breach of the Möhne Dam. Nigger's grave is at Royal Air Force station Scampton, Lincolnshire. In July 2020 the headstone was replaced, with his name removed. The RAF said it "did not want to give prominence to an offensive term that went against its ethos". In 2023, the RAF's request for listed building consent to move the dog's grave to another airbase was refused. Name The word nigger was often used as a dog's name during the early part of the 20th century. A black explosive sniffer dog named Nigger served with a Royal Engineers mine clearance unit in 1944 during the Normandy Campaign. The black dog leading a sled dog team on the Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic (1910–1913) was also named Nigger. The term was not considered offensive in the UK until the 1950s, being found earlier in novels and other contexts and causing no remark at the time.

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Notable quotes

“Thomas Dunn English...counselled union and harmony and a due regard for State rights. He recommended the Republicans to head their address not fellow-citizens, but "fellow-niggers." He said, in the course of his remarks, that we had had niggers like oysters at a feast, "fried, stewed, raw, roasted, and sometimes like w:William Page (painter)|'s 'Venus,' on the half shell."”
— Thomas Dunn English, Democratic National Convention for 1860; reported in The New York Times (July 26, 1860), p. 1, col. 3
“I noticed that among this class of colored men the word "nigger" was freely used in about the same sense as the word "fellow," and sometimes as a term of almost endearment; but I soon learned that its use was positively and absolutely prohibited to white men.”
— James Weldon Johnson (anonymously), (1912), Ch. VI; see nigga
“Then I come down to Houston, I went to a bowling alley. I couldn't go bowling, there were no bowling balls. The people here throw 'em all in the sea, thought they were nigger eggs... thought they were nigger eggs.”
— Kinky Friedman, from a 1980 tape, as reported on the Burnt Orange Report, an Austin-based Democratic blog, in September 2006; quoted in Texas Weekly, vol. 23, no. 13 (18 September 2006), Online
“The prosecutor, his voice trembling, added that the "N-word" was so vile he would not utter it. "It's the filthiest, dirtiest, nastiest word in the English language."”
— Christopher Darden, during the , reported by Kenneth B. Noble in The New York Times (January 14, 1995)
“The nigger was calm, cool, towering, superb.”
— Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (1897), Ch. 1
“You are not even a nigger, you are an African.”
— Hotel Rwanda (2004), spoken by Colonel Oliver ()

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Nigger: racist slur against black people of Melanesian or African de · autobiography by comedian and social activist Dick Gregory, · 1993 single by Clawfinger

Notable quotes

“Thomas Dunn English...counselled union and harmony and a due regard for State rights. He recommended the Republicans to head their address not fellow-citizens, but "fellow-niggers." He said, in the course of his remarks, that we had had niggers like oysters at a feast, "fried, stewed, raw, roasted, and sometimes like w:William Page (painter)|'s 'Venus,' on the half shell."”
— Thomas Dunn English, Democratic National Convention for 1860; reported in The New York Times (July 26, 1860), p. 1, col. 3
“I noticed that among this class of colored men the word "nigger" was freely used in about the same sense as the word "fellow," and sometimes as a term of almost endearment; but I soon learned that its use was positively and absolutely prohibited to white men.”
— James Weldon Johnson (anonymously), (1912), Ch. VI; see nigga
“Then I come down to Houston, I went to a bowling alley. I couldn't go bowling, there were no bowling balls. The people here throw 'em all in the sea, thought they were nigger eggs... thought they were nigger eggs.”
— Kinky Friedman, from a 1980 tape, as reported on the Burnt Orange Report, an Austin-based Democratic blog, in September 2006; quoted in Texas Weekly, vol. 23, no. 13 (18 September 2006), Online
“The prosecutor, his voice trembling, added that the "N-word" was so vile he would not utter it. "It's the filthiest, dirtiest, nastiest word in the English language."”
— Christopher Darden, during the , reported by Kenneth B. Noble in The New York Times (January 14, 1995)
“The nigger was calm, cool, towering, superb.”
— Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (1897), Ch. 1
“You are not even a nigger, you are an African.”
— Hotel Rwanda (2004), spoken by Colonel Oliver ()

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Nigger was a male black labrador retriever belonging to Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Royal Air Force, and the mascot of No. 617 Squadron. Gibson owned the dog when he was previously a member of 106 Squadron. Nigger often accompanied Gibson on training flights and was a great favourite of the members of both 106 and 617 Squadrons. He was noted for his liking of beer, which he drank from his own bowl in the Officers' Mess.

Overview

Nigger was a male black labrador retriever belonging to Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Royal Air Force, and the mascot of No. 617 Squadron. Gibson owned the dog when he was previously a member of 106 Squadron. Nigger often accompanied Gibson on training flights and was a great favourite of the members of both 106 and 617 Squadrons. He was noted for his liking of beer, which he drank from his own bowl in the Officers' Mess. Nigger died on 16 May 1943, the day of the famous "Dambusters" raid, when he was hit by a motorist. He was buried at midnight as Gibson was leading the raid. "Nigger" (Morse code: -. .. --. --. . .-. ) was the codeword Gibson used to confirm the breach of the Möhne Dam. Nigger's grave is at Royal Air Force station Scampton, Lincolnshire. In July 2020 the headstone was replaced, with his name removed. The RAF said it "did not want to give prominence to an offensive term that went against its ethos". In 2023, the RAF's request for listed building consent to move the dog's grave to another airbase was refused. Name The word nigger was often used as a dog's name during the early part of the 20th century. A black explosive sniffer dog named Nigger served with a Royal Engineers mine clearance unit in 1944 during the Normandy Campaign. The black dog leading a sled dog team on the Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic (1910–1913) was also named Nigger. The term was not considered offensive in the UK until the 1950s, being found earlier in novels and other contexts and causing no remark at the time.

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