whitefolk en · NOUN
Etymology
From white + folk.
Meanings
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(informal, plural, plural-only) White people.
The movie joins an impressive list of recent films obsessed with Bay Area redevelopment and the high cost of living where you used to live, or want to live, surrounded by pre-approved whitefolk of means.
2019 June 11, Michael Phillips, “'Last Black Man in San Francisco' review: This old house tells a story”, in Chicago Tribune:Coordinate term: blackfolk
Francine’s stolid, accommodating husband Albert (Damon Gupton) completes the picture, and soon we’re in purgatory, with a passel of well-meaning whitefolk raucously debating the limits of liberty (vis a vis the superseding priority of property value) as the black folks stand quietly by, biting (through) their tongues.
2012 April 20, Scott Brown, “Theater Review: Clybourne Park Is a Mighty Racial Cage Match”, in Vulture: