[Ads-l] Slight Further Antedating of "Driving While Black"

[Shapiro, Fred]

driving while black (OED 1990)

1986 Las Vegas Review-Journal 30 May 4D/4 (Genealogy Bank)

Jeff Joseph is a black preppie with superlative diction, but whose street talk and action becomes the locus of his stiletto thrusts at both white and black unconsciousness.  One of the most inspired of his thrusts is toward what he terms "California DWB - driving while black."

Fred Shapiro

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