[McGavin999]

WOW, this is worse then I had heard it was. All the Cain supporters just pretended he said the sign was insensitive and didn’t mention that he pointed it squarely at Perry. That is sickening. Our very own Al Sharpton.

[P-Marlowe]

As a technical term

"Niggerhead" was, among others:

• a former British term for a black iron post for mooring ships, made from an old cannon partially buried muzzle upward, with a slightly oversize black cannonball covering the hole
• a former sailors' term for an isolated coral head, notorious as navigation hazards
• among some American stonemasons, a term for a large smoothly rounded stone
• an antiquated term for a large round rock sticking up from the surface of a logging road, used by loggers and log truck drivers in the Pacific Northwest
• an old U.S. Navy term for a small winch, a Capstan
• a coal miner's term for blackish iron disulfide nodular rock occurring at the top of the coal seams, often visible in coal mine roofs. Because of their density, they can fall from the roofs, injuring or killing the miners below
• an archaic term for the striking weight on a pile driver
• a term for a steam manifold, fountain, turret or header on a boiler, particularly that of a locomotive

Plants and animals

"Niggerhead" is or was a common name for:

• Carex secta, a tussock grass in New Zealand
• Echinocactus polycephalus, the niggerhead cactus, native to California and Arizona
• Echinacea, or coneflower, colloquially called "Kansas niggerhead" or "wild niggerhead"
• Nasutitermes graveolus, the niggerhead termite, native to Australia
• Rudbeckia hirta, a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae
• hard tussocks in the tundra, esp. in Alaska

Places

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"Niggerhead" is part of the name of:

• Nigger Head, an island in North Queensland, Australia
• Niggerhead hunting camp, the former name of a hunting camp of Texas governor Rick Perry, renamed to "North Camp Pasture" in 1983 by the family .^[1]

[iopscusa]

So the Right’s Black candidate is pretty much the same as Al Sharpton? How about we elect a better candidate than Cain!