[Ads-l] _splib_

[Wilson Gray]

Green’s:

2. 'a liberal black who looks angry but will not upset the status quo’
(American Speech XLIX, 1976); i.e. a derog. term for a black person.

Google:

noun. A black person who opposes discrimination, etc, but will not
challenge the status quo; a liberal black : Don't nobody want no nice
nigger anymore. They want an angry splib. [1964+ Black; fr spade plus
liberal] The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition by Barbara Ann
Kipfer, PhD. and Robert L. Chapman, Ph.D ...


This is bullshit.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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