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Lol...omg. lol.
Phew.
I'm sure Americans used blacklist like that at one time or another, but the origins are a list of enemies and had nothing to do with skin color.
Master and Slave is also not something exclusive to black people, they're generic terms that were appropriated.
De---erate was a mathematical term before Nazi Germany used it to refer to people they were going to kill. Doesn't change the fact it now has an extreme amount of violence attached to it.
The terms used in Nazi Germany during Aktion T4 were "Defektmensch" (faulty human), "Ballastexistenz" (character of burden) or "geistig Toter" (mentally dead). They based it on some pamphlet published in 1920 by eugenics proponent Alfred Erich Hoche. So your information is wrong.