Obviously, the context of a white man addressing a black employee is exquisitely sensitive.
In "Slaves Without Masters," the historian Ira Berlin quotes an irate man addressing a neighbor who had freed his slaves.
'I am seeing more terrible thing than ten thousand men and I am doing more terrible thing than twenty thousand men.' Feeling like an old man addressing a small girl, all he wants to do is forget.
Updated at 7.14pm BST 6.39pm BST ITV have just broadcast shocking footage of a man addressing a camera with bloody hands and a machete with the victim behind him.
The book moves between the sombre and the surreal: an oil-smeared worker in North Dakota sits forlorn in a lunar landscape, as a man addresses a gathering at the Optimists Club in Bloomington, Minnesota.
After the fulminations on the Capitol steps from the pouting boy with the toys, the helicopter escape by the grownups, the jubilant resistance by millions of marching women (and men), and, finally, the long (or short) rides home, as dusk fell on Sunday a sane, soft-spoken man addressed a gathering.
By Mark Singer After the fulminations on the Capitol steps from the pouting boy with the toys, the helicopter escape by the grownups, the jubilant resistance by millions of marching women (and men), and, finally, the long (or short) rides home, as dusk fell on Sunday a sane, soft-spoken man addressed a gathering.
And so, the knife-toting meat men addressed a 234-pound Angus beef carcass supplied by a small farmer in Vineland, N.J., provided by Ms. Daguin, the owner of D'Artagnan, a specialty meat company in Newark.
Both men addressed a union-sponsored picnic held at county fairgrounds here southeast of San Francisco, but they did not appear together and they did not mention each other in their formal remarks.
Even at the moment of highest drama, as one of the men addressed an amateur camera, his hands drenched red, he did not dominate the scene.
At the opposite end of Castro was a second stage with a man addressing another crowd of people with a charismatic pride that could be rivaled by religious leaders.
