Sunday, August 17, 2014

“The Nigger Train”

By Nicholas Stix

“You live in Canarsie on the L train? That train ain’t no joke. That’s the nigger train. That ain’t the soul train.”

A black, female American foster-care worker to her black female colleague.

June 22, 1992.

New York Diary, A Different Drummer magazine, Spring, 1993.

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