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White negro vs White nigger

white negro

1. a person with black ancestry who has a pale or albino complexion:

  • He was one of that peculiar class called Albinos, or white negroes.

2. (U.S. dated sl., derog.) a white who defends the rights or interests of Black people:

  • Both Clarksons were counted among the activists whom Pitt in a rare jest called the “white Negroes.”

3. (in nonce-use):

  • The Jewish Defense organization became another white negro, which changed its color according to the political situation.

white nigger—(U.S. dated sl.)

1. (derog.) a white person who does menial labor:

  • “Ole Miss Meanses’ white nigger,” as some of them called her, in allusion to her slavish life.

2. a Black person who defers to white people and regarded as betraying his social loyalty:

  • Dr. Marcus Foster, a black suggested that the children be equipped with identity passes…. The unfortunate Foster was widely accused of being a white nigger.

3. = white negro 3:

  • Hippies have openly proclaimed themselves “white niggers” by which they seem to mean that, like blacks, they represent an alternative to the life style of majority-group American culture.