Soon after we stepped onto the street, a wiry man in a black nylon jacket stopped my translator and talked to him intently.
Last October, as the sun set over the Hudson River, I approached a heavyset man in black kilt who wore thick, rimless glasses and had a long, waxed mustache.
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Below us, I saw a man dressed in black move quickly through the village and dodge out of sight behind a wall.
"To utter that, and to direct it to a black person, and to a black man in New York City many people out here have to deal with racism, we don't throw the word around lightly, " Mr. Thompson said.
''Come to think of it they were probably expecting a shaven-headed man in a black leather overcoat with a bunch of goons toting Uzis.
From the back of the room, a young man dressed in a black sweatshirt started saying that a Chinese slowdown could have a big effect on global supply and demand.
Little did they know that come April 20, 2012, there would be all kinds of wild changes in the world, like a manned spaceship to the moon, a black man in the White House and a woman maybe even being considered for membership at Augusta National.
He was a short and solid old man in a black peasant's smock and gray iron-stiff trousers and he wore rope-soled shoes.
Behind him, a clean-cut middle aged man in a black suit stood surveying the scene in the park, taking swigs from a from a bottle of orange soda, frowning.
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The suspect, who was being sought late Monday, was described by witnesses as a black man in his late 20s or early 30s wearing a tan T-shirt, black slacks and a black knit cap and holding a three-quarter-length black coat.
But with little time for reflection, a thin man in jeans and a black turtleneck appeared.
He was a white man in a world dominated by black artists, but he wasn't threatened by the differences.
Fast forward a few decades and the notion of a black man in the Oval Office provides ample joke fodder for comics such as Richard Pryor and Chris Rock.
"Kind of the way Anastasia is bound by her clothes, station and by being a woman, I am bound by being a black man in 1864, where racism is rampant and pretty much the norm of society, " Essandoh said.
For example, VH-1's highly rated Flavor of Love show features a black man in a clownish hat, a big clock hanging around his neck, spewing the N-word while demeaning black women.
At the only shop we pass all day a gas station and grocery at the junction with a road heading northwest to Wittenoom and the Hamersley Range Mudronja greets a middle-aged black man in a cowboy hat.
Beside the ruins of a Dominican monastery is a modest beach restaurant run by a man dressed entirely in black, with an impressive pipe curling from his mouth.
Liuzzo had to be aware of the dangers of a white woman being seen in a car with a black man at the time, says David Truskoff, one of the marchers who met Liuzzo in Selma.
They will also be asking whether what Mr Carter describes could really happen in America and, of course, if the country is ready to put a black man in the White House.
In Britain the feeling has been, ever since the blitz days, that a man who bought in the black market deprived other Britons of their share.
The shooting in August 2011 of a young black man by police in north London set off days of the worst rioting across the capital in 30 years.
So, cast as a black man in the war movie, Lazarus decides to dye his skin surgically.
The illustration on the cover showed a black man in a gleaming top hat, white gloves, mouth open in the act of singing.
I've heard this "fear factor" time and time again, and it speaks to the deep concern blacks have that America has not advanced enough to be comfortable with a black man in the White House.
Wolfowitz sat down next to a slight middle-aged man in a fraying denim jacket and a black wool cap, who said that his name was Bedir Yasa and that until recently he had been living on the streets.
The third was a man in dark clothing and riding a white bike with black writing on the cross bar.
She said a man "with a black hat and a revolver in one hand and a cleaver in the other came over" and excitedly warned her to stay away from the body.
The ad suggested that as the governor of Texas, Bush failed to take a hard stand against a murderous 1998 attack by three whites on a black man, James Byrd in Jasper, Texas.
Or in the case of Obama, exactly how do you relate having a white mother, an African immigrant father, how do you relate to black people in this country as a black man?
It was an unwelcome allegation for a department that overhauled itself after the notorious police beating in 1991 of a black man, Rodney King.
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