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"text": "At Crescent Lake in Oneida County, Hubert Locke, who is black and serves as the Dean of the University of Washington's School of Public Affairs, was confronted with words to the effect of, \"Now the Commission has a nigger working for them\" and \"I guess there are two kinds of niggers—red niggers and black niggers\"[...] These blatant manifestations of racism directed toward Mr. Locke serve to illustrate the racist attitudes experienced daily by tribal members.",
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"text": "You don't have eyes in your head to see that is because the woman skin lighter than yours and mine she feel she better than people on this Hill. […] And what make her precious so? That fading yellow red-nigger skin?\nReferring to the character of Miss Cleothilda, described on page 17 as a \"mulatto woman\".",
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