subjugator

“To me, the question is, what do we do when a whole culture essentially becomes the subjugator?”

Publications and, later, films would portray Black men as unpredictable thieves or as lazy and shiftless "takers," as well as wanton rapists and subjugators of white people.

The subjugator was being offered a gift, being given a chance to see in a new way, being given a chance to participate in the work of building a better world.

"Isolation is such a powerful tool to the subjugator. And yet I don't believe I would have felt so isolated had it all happened today," she writes.

China, for instance, has absorbed repeated waves of foreign invaders – Mongols, Manchu, the West – with its culture virtually intact and its subjugator adopting its ways rather than vice versa.