magic Negro n.— «Unlike the typical bluesy earth folksy denim-overalls noble-in-the-face-of-cracker-racism aw shucks Pulitzer Prize-winning protagonist mojo black man, I am not the seventh son of a seventh son of a seventh son. » —by Paul...
redshirting v.— «Under the guise of individual differences, meeting individual needs, continuous progress, humanistic education, and now kindergarten redshirting, we have sought to justify shortchanging the children of poor and minorities in...
guap
n.— «I doubt fab needs to steal a chain. That nigga got guap.» —“Boxden Slum: Rapper Fabolous gets shot…then gets arrested” by rmemo Urban Boxden Oct. 18, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
black scale n.— «The pentatonic scale is sometimes called the black scale, as so many Negro spirituals are pentatonic: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” and “Deep River” were named. (I happen to know that Wings’”Mull of Kintyre” is also pentatonic, but...
cotton curtain n.— «From behind the “cotton curtain” of the Mississippi Delta last week came Dr. Theodore R. (for Roosevelt) Mason Howard.…Rated as Mississippi’s “most hated” Negro leader because of his refusal to buckle under pressure applied by...
twist one’s cap v. phr.— «You raise your glock at my clique (we’ll take your life nigga)/It ain’t no thing for us to blast/(And twist your cap and leave a hole in your ass).» —“IMG” by CMT, E A Ski, Posse West Coast Bad Boyz II Jan. 10, 1997...