nigger knocking

Example Sentences

• "I knew some cats was blowing one-nighters in little sawmill stops down in Missisippi, and one time these white boys — who had been dancing all night to the colored cats' sounds — chased 'em out on the highway and whipped 'em with chains and cut their poor asses with knives! They called it 'nigger knocking.' No reason — except they was so goddamn miserable they had to mess everybody else up, ya dig?"
• "Sometimes it is good to reflect on the Neanderthal period of my youth, when I rode in the back seat of a '57 Chevrolet along a night-blackened Carolina road hunting for blacks to hit with rotten watermelons tossed from the window of the speeding car, as they walked the shoulder of thin backroads. We called this intrepid form of entertainment "nigger-knocking," and it was great fun during the carnival of blind hatred I participated joyfully in during my first couple of years in high school."
• "Having been nigger-knocking, I would have proven myself and would become a "good old boy," my most coveted appellation. ... And since everything in town was blue-lawed, and the quarters were near, and nigger-knocking had about it the air of cause as well as excitement, I suppose it was the logical choice of outlets."
• "Aside from the physical harm that it caused, the social significance of nigger-knocking was its power to perpetuate the myth of the white man's dominance over us and, of course, to keep us believing in our perceived inferiority."
• "White boys in my school frequently talked about "going nigger knocking". That meant driving through a black neighborhood at night and if they saw a black man walking down the street hitting him with a rock or a stick."
• "I had never heard the term "nigger-knocking" until I started school at St. Ignatius. Stories floated like ghosts through the corridors of that school, bragging tales of white men packed together in nondescript cars, driving through the streets of Goat Hill looking for blacks walking along the sidewalk. The car would then speed by, and someone in the car would throw a soda bottle, or reach out with a broomstick and hit the black person in the back. One time, they found a young woman unconscious on a sidewalk after some good ol' boys went nigger-knocking on Goat Hill."