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But what would be the fun in that? For my father, life began, and would always begin, in Niggertown. He could easily have erased the old neighborhood from his biography. He used “Niggertown” to make the hearer reconcile the word with the man using it: Lolis Edward Elie, this civil rights lawyer, this man of letters, this collector of fine art and old jazz records, this gourmand, this voracious reader of smart books and drinker of cold Champagne. In the case of my father, it was also a willful incongruence.

So “Niggertown” is interrogatory, too, asking the names of the nigger towns in those cities and inquiring after who lives in them. Any city with a Niggertown must have other neighborhoods contained within its multitudes. It is universal in that every reasonably hip city in the world, from Johannesburg to Rio de Janeiro, has its own Niggertown. It is geography, denoting an area of New Orleans near a bend in the Mississippi River, near Broadway and tony St. He said it with ironic braggadocio, reveling in its many-splendored layers of accuracy and incorrectness.

That was the word he usually chose to begin his origin story. Please feel free to edit this section to add missing information and complete it.A concise, intelligible, truthful answer to the question, “Where are you from?”īut that was never the only answer my father gave and seldom the first one.

2.8 Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.

Some of them also possess Z-Rings S M or Z-Power Rings US UM. In Generation VII, Veterans keep their Pokémon in Ultra Balls. In the Battle Subway, Battle Maison, and Battle Tree, they tend to specialize in Legendary Pokémon.Ī male Veteran can team up with a male Ace Trainer or a female Veteran to form a duo known as Master & Apprentice or Veteran Duo, respectively, and challenge the player to a Double Battle. They are similar to the Expert Trainer class of Generation III, but use a variety of high-leveled, usually fully evolved Pokémon similar to Ace Trainers.

Some will give out PP Maxes after they are defeated. In Pokémon Black and White, Veterans are depicted as much younger people in trenchcoats they seem to be adult versions of Ace Trainers. In Generation IV, they are depicted as healthy old men in old-fashioned clothing, a white keikogi and a red hakama. Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining PearlĪrt from Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearlĭiamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, and SoulSilverĪ Veteran (Japanese: ベテラントレーナー Veteran Trainer) is a type of Pokémon Trainer that debuted in the Generation IV games.