Congressional Record from February 18th, 1911 - Big, Fat Niggers

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https://www.congress.gov/61/crecb/1911/02/18/GPO-CRECB-1911-pt3-v46-12.pdf [A]
Courtesy of J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama

 

[Jive]

"The big, black, fat nigger" is a silly tautology but it goes hard.

 

[Nick Bockwinkel's Belt]

I don't know if I fully understand the early 20th century legalese, but I guess the context is the southern cotton farmers imported the bags and ties used for bundling their harvests from Canada, and Congress issued a law that made those things exempt from duty during the Civil War. Republicans had passed another law that overrode that exemption a few years before this session in 1909, and Democrats wanted to repeal it. They didn't have enough members present for a quorum, so this diatribe was "Cotton Tom" Heflin chastising the Republicans while waiting for more people to show up to kill the Republican filibuster.

 

[AMHOLIO]

Well, he sure looks Alabaman.

 

[Drip Torch]

Well, he sure looks Alabaman.

Sir, it's pronounced Alabamaian.

 

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