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blackfolk en · NOUN

Etymology

From black + folk.

Meanings

1. (informal, plural, plural-only) Black people.
   • All forced conversations in America about race, sex and celebrity are inevitably framed by horror and absurdity, history and the modern day. Because of this, many of my people – as in American born Blackfolk – refuse to countenance moral or legal absolutes when allegations of our stars committing sexual assault hit the news. 2019 March 1, Greg Tate et al., “'Too big to cancel': can we still listen to Michael Jackson?”, in The Guardian:
   • Most Integrationists do not see America as a powerful but degenerate world imperialist. Those Integrationist[s] who do see this feel that by injecting blackfolk into the existing American framework they will cool out the degeneracy. 1968 September–October, S. E. Anderson, “Roads to Black Liberation: The Fragmented Movement”, in Negro Digest, volume 17, numbers 11–12, page 5:
   • Coordinate term: whitefolk

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