Amerikkka en · PROPN
Pronunciation
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- /əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.k(ə).k(ə).kə/ (US)
Etymology
Blend of America + KKK (“Ku Klux Klan”).
Meanings
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(derogatory, offensive, slang) The United States of America, generally used in depicting the country as fascist or racist.
In Amerikkka, this movement is evident from efforts to control the institutions serving and located within Black communities.
1970 July, “White Ethics and Black Power: The Emergence of the West Side Organization”, in Black World/Negro Digest, volume 19, number 9, page 83:[…] it's so obscene and Amerikkka and greedy, but pleasing to the eye […]
2002, Courtney X, Lasting Visions, page 202:Ben Caldwell recalls the scene as follows: Life as we know it is about to change I smell it within the air the weather is getting strange Drugged up sedated and numb from the pain The sickness in Amerikkka has spread to her brain [...]
2009, Marcyliena H. Morgan, The real hiphop: battling for knowledge, power, and respect, page 161:We have said […] that one of the greatest dangers of the continuance of the Vietnam war was that […] it would lead to an inevitable rise of fascism at home. Now that the U.S. is spreading the aggression in Indo-China the danger is coming icily close. The Black Panthers believe this is already a Fascist Amerikkka; we can understand this view from the black ghetto. We happen to hold that many Americans will resist, and there may be a Civil War in which thousands, if not millions, will die. Feeling thus, it is hard to get enthused about cleaning up the Hudson. There is a strong suspicion that Earth Day was a diversion, for at that very moment plans were being put in operation in Washington to spread death and destruction to Cambodia.
1970 June, Broadside, volume 107, page 7:And get mad, mad 'cause I'm the nigga that flaunt it / AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted
1990, “AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted”, in AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, performed by Ice Cube:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| AmeriKKKa | alternative | lexicographic |