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<p>Imagine that an entire group of people is noted only for their skin color. They are degraded, wiped out, and forced into slavery. One hundred years after emancipation and fifty years after equality under the law - a relatively short period of time - that entire group of people doesn’t mind being called by an old derogatory name. </p>
<p>Imagine a little girl whose name is Bertha. People have made fun of her for that name. People stereotype her for that name. She hated it the whole time she was growing up. But finally, after many years, she’d come to terms with it. In fact, she doesn’t even hate it anymore. Instead of going by her middle name, she prefers that people just go ahead and call her Bertha.</p>
<p>A rose by any other name… a name is a name.</p>