Nigger:
 

        Nigger: 1) Usually offensive to people of the black race.
                     2) A member of a socially disadvantaged class of persons.
                     3) All of the people that feel left out of the political process.

         In this poem the Baltimorean is calling the boy a nigger because he is different.  He is a different color so in that time that would make him bad. The Baltimorean is calling him that with out even knowing him.

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