(1) He did not even tell his loyal and long-suffering wife Grace, always known as Darkie, who found out about it second hand.
(2) But you can't update a person in the same way as you can a film or a work of literature, scrubbing out the "gippos" and the "darkies" nestling there in their lexicon, hooked firmly on to their history like a tic on a cat.
(3) "The memorabilia gives you a much better understanding of how one set of images of black people was constantly reinforced - the lazy sleeping darkie, the eternal laughter, and on and on."
(4) In Maclean – a northern New South Wales town on the banks of the Clarence river, where racist epithets like “coons” and “darkies” can still be heard in everyday banter – Norma, an Indigenous woman, and Attwater, a white concreter, had bonded for years over alcohol.
(5) As late as 1989, Colgate-Palmolive was producing a toothpaste for sale in Asia called "Darkie", which bore the image of a smiling black man.