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Slur | Represents | Reason & Origins |
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AA | Blacks | African American. Could also refer to double-A batteries, which you use for a while then throw away. |
African | Blacks | Home continent. |
African't | Blacks | Unemployed/lazy Blacks |
Africoon | Blacks | Combination of African and Coon. |
Akata | Black Americans | West African (Yoruba) term for African-Americans. Meaning ancestors of slaves or "cotton picker". |
Arf | Blacks | African Rock Fish. Jones Beach (NYC) term for Blacks due to their poor swimming abilities. |
Bingo-Bongo | Blacks | Italian wordplay of African names/language |
Bleck | Blacks | Sounds like the word "black" said with a South African accent. http://imdb.com/title/tt0097733/ |
Boogie | Blacks | Referring to "Boogie Woogie" form of jazz? Could come from W. African "Buuker" or "Buckra", meaning "Devil", "Boogie man" or "White Man". Turned around and used against Blacks by Whites. |
Boogie Man | Whites | Enslaved African-Americans told tales to their children of a Boogie Man who would abduct you, kill you or otherwise cause harm to you if you were to leave the plantation. The Boogie man of which they spoke was in essence the white man. (Possible connection tot the ghost like appearance of the KKK) |
Caffre | Blacks | Derogatory term used by South African whites during the apartheid era, now considered an offense and beeped out from the media (like an ordinary curse in USA) |
Casabooboo | Blacks | From 1960s African leader Casavubu. |
Chara | Indians | A South African term for Indians. Not as derogatory as coolie |
Clicker | Africans | Some African tribes communicate by "clicking." |
Clicky | Blacks | From that African language that all it is is clicks and whistles |
Cocolo | Blacks | Dominicans used this term for Blacks because they look like "Coco"nuts and it sounds really African. |
Congo | Blacks | Dark African Americans who act better than White people |
Crimestopper | Blacks | Refers to an African American woman who has an abortion |
Crow | Blacks | Relatively large black bird. Could also be a reference to "Jim Crow", a popular 19th-century minstrel song that stereotyped African Americans, which later was used as the name of the Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial segregation in the South. |
Darkness | Blacks | Self Explanatory. Often used to describe a crowd of African Americans. |
Democrats | Blacks | A popular political affiliation among African Americans. Also in reference to always wanting stuff for free. |
Double A | Blacks | Shorter version of 'African American.' |
Es-obe | Blacks | Meaning "Apes Obey!" Used by British Colonial masters in Africa commanding the African workers to get to work. The early colonized Africans, not knowing the meaning of the command also cultivated it into their language- using it among themselves to gather themselves to work efficiently. |
Fat Albert | Blacks | Used against overweight African American males in reference to a popular 1980's cartoon created by Bill Cosby (for example, saying "hey hey hey" around a fat black man could be considered offensive by some) |
FUBU | Blacks | As in the clothing line F.U.B.U., or known by African Americans as "For Us, By Us." Racially translated to "Farmers Used to Buy (or Beat) Us" |
Geechee | Blacks | Specifically a derogatory term referring to the Gullah culture of African ex-slaves on the Atlantic coast of South Carolina/Georgia/Northern Florida. |
Halfrican | Mixed Races | Black/Any other race. Represents a person that is half African. Also: Halfrican American |
Honky/Honkie | Whites | Possibly comes from the term "Honky Tonk", which is a type of country music. Another interesting theory suggests it originated as "Hunky" (and "Bohunk") to refer to Slavic and Hungarian immigrants and eventually transformed into "Honkey" to refer to all White people. Might also come from the African Wolof word "Honq" meaning red or pink and used to describe white men. Yet another theory has it originating from white men honking their horns to call on the lounge singer/prostitute types in 1920's Harlem. |
Jersey-Dweller | Blacks | New Jersey = the arm pit of America, this does not mean that African Americans live in Jersey. However, in any city in America, African Americans can be found in the worst parts (or arm pits) of that city. Therefore making them Jersey-dwellers. |
Jigaboo | Blacks | Very dark-skinned Black people. Usually used among lighter-skinned African-Americans to refer to ones of very dark complexion. Made popular in the 1975 movie "Cooley High." Often shortened to "Jig." |
Kafir | Africans | Referring to Black Africans. Kafir is an Arabic word with meanings similar to Goy or Goyim of the Jews, only describing any non-Muslim person in a derogatory way. S. African Kaffir possibly imported during the Boer War by British soldiers who had fought in the Sudanese campaign. It just means those who are not in whatever religion the Arabic speaker adheres to (Christianity or Islam). It can be negative if someone uses a negative, derogatory tone of voice, but the word itself isn't "bad" used that way. |
Koku-jin | Blacks | Japanese term for Blacks or anyone of African descent. |
McChigger | Mixed Races | Irish/Chinese/African American mix |
Mi Dang | Blacks | The Vietnamese term for African Americans. |
Montu | Blacks | Old African word that refers to tribes people. |
Moon Cricket | Blacks | See Cricket. Possibly derived from the "MC" often used after many black nicknames. Also a possible reference to the minoral aspect of the African race in the United States. A black person(cricket) in a sea of white(the moon). |
Munt | Blacks | Rhodesian. Comes from the African word for "person" |
N.L.B. | Whites | "Nigger Loving Bitch." Represents a woman, while not of the African race, sleeps with those who are. |
Naffer | Arabs | Naf short for North-African |
NASA | African Americans | North American Street Ape |
Negative | Blacks | South African - Referred to as undeveloped (as in film negatives). |
Nigger | Blacks | Most likely originates with the Latin word "niger" which translates to "black". Similar words for "black" exist in other languages (Spanish, for example, is "negro"). Also somewhat relates to the African country Nigeria, which is primarily black. Many variations exist, including "Nig", "Nigel", "Niggy", "Niggly", etc. Some interesting history. |
Nubian Princess | Blacks | Originally was a compliment for Black women, grew popularity from the movie "Friday" then was commonly used mockingly under mentality that a Nubian meaning African even with a title of princess is still a Nigger. |
Number 2 | Blacks | Usually when checking off racial or ethnic background African-American is the second choice. |
Nurple | Blacks | African Blacks, specifically. "So black they appear purple." |
Ofay | Whites | Used to be popular with political types who were down with their "African Roots." Made popular in the play "A Raisin in the Sun." Possibly of Creole origin meaning something similar to "foe." |
Old Brown Tucker | Blacks | Slur for an old African American man. Comes from a popular song during the time of the Civil War. |
Po'bucker | Whites | Corruption of West African "Buuker" meaning devil, boogie-man or white man. Poor white trash were referred to as "Po'buckers". |
Quadroon | African Americans | A person who is 1/4 Black. Coined during the Civil War, referring to how White you had to be in order to serve in the army. |
Rockfish | Blacks | Plays on the stereotype that blacks cannot swim, and will "sink like a rock." Also: "African rockfish." |
Rooineck | British | South African version of redneck. |
Sixer | Blacks | On the U.S. census, African American is code number six on the list of ethnicities. |
Spear-Chucker | Blacks | Comes from the hunting styles of African tribal natives. |
Sponge Head | Blacks | African's naturally bouncy/kinky hair, when uncut, tends to be big and poofy when dried out. When you sqeeze it it seems as if it would bounce back at release |
Tounge-Clicker | Blacks | The Language for som African Peoples involves clicking of the tounge |
Zambo | Mixed Races | Indian/African mix. |