On the record
When it prefixed “Negro” to the national problem, it knew that the device would awaken and increase a deep-seated prejudice at once and that it would repel fair and candid investigation.
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Frederick Douglass
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Douglass discusses how framing issues with racial terms exacerbates prejudice and hinders honest discourse.
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