pimp
v.— «Some Black voices, however, have joined the anti-immigrant backlash. Among them is Mary Mitchell, a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, who denounced Arellano’s comparison of her struggle to that of Rosa Parks, who defied segregation in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955. “As they say in the streets, Arellano is pimping the system,” Mitchell wrote. “She is using Rosa Parks’ name to buy herself more time, and that disgusts me.”» —“The Case of Elvira Arellano” by Lee Sustar CounterPunch Aug. 31, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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