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    An Essay On Niggers and Squirrels
    An Essay On Niggers and Squirrels
    An Essay On Niggers and Squirrels
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    An Essay On Niggers and Squirrels

    By Marcus McGee

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    An essay on the relationship between African American males and law enforcement, including insights on Rodney King, OJ Simpson and personal experiences of the author. An appeal to correct systemic wrongs and forge a new future.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPegasus Books
    Release dateApr 26, 2010
    ISBN9780983260813
    An Essay On Niggers and Squirrels

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      An Essay On Niggers and Squirrels, except he didn't talk about the squirrels. Bo-ring.
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      Best book on the app to be honest, keep up the niggering bro

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    An Essay On Niggers and Squirrels - Marcus McGee

    AN ESSAY ON

    NIGGERS AND SQUIRRELS

    by

    Marcus McGee

    SMASHWORDS EDITION

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    PUBLISHED BY:

    Pegasus Books/Marcus McGee on Smashwords

    An Essay On Niggers And Squirrels

    Copyright © 2010, 2014 by Marcus McGee

    All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

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    ISBN - 978-0-983-26081-3

    Comments about An Essay On Niggers and Squirrels and requests for additional copies, book club rates and author speaking appearances may be addressed to Marcus McGee or Pegasus Books c/o Ms. McGhee, 8165 Valley Green Drive, Sacramento, CA 95823, or you can send your comments and requests via e-mail to mmcgee@pegasusbooks.net

    NIGGERS AND SQUIRRELS

    So It Begins…

    The Death of Innocence

    Akin to Rape

    The Rodney King Incident

    O.J. Simpson

    The Black and White Divide

    Conspiracy of Silence

    The Real O.J. Debate

    All Too Common an Occurrence

    My Investigation

    It Strikes Close to Home

    Due Diligence

    Accountability

    An Obligation to Speak Out

    Call to Action

    DWBB – Driving While Black or Brown

    Collecting the Empirical and Anecdotal Evidence

    Talking to Our Children

    My Responsibility as a Father

    APOLOGY

    Eulogy for Anthony Lee

    NIGGERS AND SQUIRRELS

    During my college years, at a time I finally learned to appreciate the wisdom of older people, my grandfather, Homer, told me that the life of a niggah don’t amount to the life of a squirrel. Having lived the first seventy-five years of his life in and around Greenwood, Mississippi, he said that he’d seen white men go to jail for killing squirrels when it wasn’t squirrel season, but he had never seen a white man go to jail for killing a black man.

    From the early 1900s to 1975, when he moved to California, he had seen his share of lynching and other murders. He stood with the victim’s grandfather as he watched lynched teenager Emmit Till’s mutilated and bloated body being dragged out the river near Money, Mississippi.

    He had seen proscribed blacks who trusted the system enough to turn themselves in being dragged from the jail kicking and screaming, only to have their mangled and burned bodies found hanging from one tree or another the next morning. He heard hushed whispers over the years that some of the worst murderers of black men and their families were friends and relatives of the judge. That was just the way thangs was, he told me, "An ya couldn’t go ta the sheriff, cuz lotta times he was

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