roast breadfruit
n.— «If there is genuine pride in ethnic particularity, plain and simple, there can be no place for denouncing those who are not so vocal or even ambivalent about ethnic issues. Nor should we indulge or defend the practice of calling such persons by derogatory terms as “roast breadfruit” or “coconut.” Is my ethnicity or my skin colouration the essence of me?» —“Black History Month:Awkward Reflections” by Clinton Chisholm Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) Feb. 22, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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