blackfolk

English

Alternative forms

• Blackfolk

Etymology

From black +‎ folk.

Noun

blackfolk pl (plural only)

1. (informal) Black people.

   Coordinate term: whitefolk

   • 1968 September–October, S. E. Anderson, “Roads to Black Liberation: The Fragmented Movement”, in Negro Digest, volume 17, numbers 11–12, page 5:

     Most Integrationists do not see America as a powerful but degenerate world imperialist. Those Integrationist[s] who do see this feel that by injecting blackfolk into the existing American framework they will cool out the degeneracy.

   • 2019 March 1, Greg Tate et al., “'Too big to cancel': can we still listen to Michael Jackson?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     All forced conversations in America about race, sex and celebrity are inevitably framed by horror and absurdity, history and the modern day. Because of this, many of my people – as in American born Blackfolk – refuse to countenance moral or legal absolutes when allegations of our stars committing sexual assault hit the news.