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black rage defense en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (informal) A defense of a crime committed by a black person on the grounds that the person was driven to temporary insanity as a result of other people's racial prejudice.
   • Black rage defenses are state-of-mind defenses. They are not only applicable in self-defense and insanity cases, but also may be used to negate the specific mental state required for a first-degree murder […] 1999, Paul Harris, Black Rage Confronts the Law, page 184:
   • Sixty-eight percent of polled blacks "found the black rage defense compelling," while, incredibly, so did 45 percent of the whites. 1994, New York Magazine, volume 27, number 21, page 6:

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gay panic defense · urban survival syndrome · trans panic defense