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The really incredible thing was that Douglass was half white. Having a white father not enough to save him from enslavement... And to think, 45 didn't even know who this man was.

Actually "nigger does not really bother me. I've been called it by white folks a couple of times but never really felt threatened except for once and this was in Brooklyn NY. It really depends on the context. If there is a mob of white folks, with a nose saying, "lynch that nigger," I would be scared to death and trying to break Usain Bolt's record. Now some little white guy using it in a bad joke is relatively innocuous and we should not act like it is the same thing.

If white people started openly calling black people "nigger", and black people thwarted them by ignoring or laughing at them, the word would lose its power. White people use it as a weapon that makes black people explode, then they sit back and smugly admire their work. A friend of mine tells how a little white girl once called her a nigger and she laughed and stuck out her tongue at the little bitch who promptly broke down and started crying. There are worse things to be called than nigger. e.g. motherfucker, cocksucker, son of a bitch, asshole or cunt, Nigger is a slave term that is kept alive by the knee-jerk reaction it provokes. Such is life.

Oh, OK sorry about the statements regarding you lumping me in with Pioneer. OK I'm clear you see a difference between my position and Pioneer's I won't mention it again... Regarding my softening on Hillary. I think that started when I saw reaction to loosing to Trump. That must have been hard; my heart went out to her. Honestly I kinda forgotten that she is a human being, who fought hard to become president. Again, in hindsight, she was more qualified than Obama and we don't even need to compare her to 45. She probably could have done more specifically for Black people too, because she, unlike OBama, did not have to worry about showing favoritism to Black folks. Again Trump won more electors and that is what Hillary and the Democrats failed to do. Everything else is largely irrelevant. I truly hope you see Trump get kicked out office or whipped in 2020. Hey I'm a Black man in America--I hope I get to see it myself

That power is called rhetoric. And it was highly prized by the greeks. However i believe a lot of that came from Egypt and the middle east.