Vulgar words in The Colored Cadet at West Point - Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, first graduate of color from the U. S. Military Academy (Page 1)
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"'Flipper has had the privilege of eating at the same table with the poor white trash; but Smith and Flipper bunked together in the same room alone, without white companions.
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This is the class we in the South are accustomed to call the "poor white trash," and speaking of them generally I can neglect them in this discussion of my treatment, and without material error.
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There appears to them too great a difference between the treatment of former colored cadets and that of myself, and the only way they are pleased to account for this difference is to say that my good treatment was due to want of "spunk," and even to fear, as some have said.
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FREEMAN'S PROTEGE ON SOUTHERN CIVILIZATION--HE TALKS AT THE RECEPTION AND MAKES OF HIMSELF AN ASS--THE ANOMALOUS CREATURE ON EXHIBITION--HE SHOWS THE CLOVEN FOOT.
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Show your spunk, and let them see that you will fight.