Black
–adjective
2.
characterized by absence of light; enveloped in darkness: a black night.
3.( sometimes initial capital letter )
a.
pertaining or belonging to any of the various populations characterized by dark skin pigmentation, specifically the dark-skinned peoples of Africa, Oceania, and australia.
b.
African-American.
4.
soiled or stained with dirt: That shirt was black within an hour.
5.
gloomy; pessimistic; dismal: a black outlook.
6.
deliberately; harmful; inexcusable: a black lie.
7.
boding ill; sullen or hostile; threatening: black words; black looks.
9.
without any moral quality or goodness; evil; wicked: His black heart has concocted yet another black deed.
10.
indicating censure, disgrace, or liability to punishment: a black mark on one's record.
11.
marked by disaster or misfortune: black areas of drought; Black Friday.
13.
based on the grotesque, morbid, or unpleasant aspects of life: black comedy; black humor.
14.
(of a check mark, flag, etc.) done or written in black to indicate, as on a list, that which is undesirable, sub-standard, potentially dangerous, etc.: Pilots put a black flag next to the ten most dangerous airports.
15.
illegal or underground: The black economy pays no taxes.
17.
deliberately false or intentionally misleading: black propaganda.
—Antonyms
1. white. 4. clean. 5. hopeful, cheerful.
These are majority of the definitions of what it means to be considered Black. 12 of these definitions are labels that no one wants to be a part of. 12 of these definitions will cause you to lose your job, your family, and trust from all of your friends. Yet two of these definitions symbolize the manifestation of Black people. Now let us link these definitions to the state of the Black community in America. Definition 13 says based on the grotesque, morbid, or unpleasant aspects of life. Where do Black rappers say they are from? The hood/ghetto, which is the squalid opposite of the affluent suburbs, palisades, hills, and beach/river front hamlets of the rich. The Black race counts for 12% of the population yet 42% live in poverty. Also many African Americans feel a great sense of pride saying they are from the hood/ghetto and that is the type of life they want to live. Definition 9 says without any moral quality or goodness; evil; wicked. The greatest ethnicity populating prisons are African Americans; very much so that there are more African Americans in prison than they are in college (2x as many). Also the rise of serial killings in Black community has risen and the cities with a 50% Black population or more are also the most dangerous cities in America. Definition 5 says gloomy; pessimistic; dismal and definition 2 says enveloped in darkness. So long a pall has been over the inner divisions of the major cities in the United States. Those inner cities have been populated with African American and Hispanics living amongst the government funded “housing projects.” Many in these two communities have felt like the only way out of their forlorn lives are drugs or sports, but never academics. Definition 15 says illegal or underground. Millions in the Black community eulogize Al Pacino’s Tony Montana, Wesley Snipe’s Nino Brown, Christopher Walken’s Frank White, Al Pacino’s Carlito Brigante, Johnny Depp’s George Jung, and Denzel Washington’s Det. Alonzo Harris. Even more they PRAISE THE REAL PUSHERS Freeway Rick Ross, Frank Lucas, and Nicky Barnes that were CALLED NIGGERS AS THE WHITE COPS ARRESTED THEM. These people are ILLEGAL DRUG DEALERS THAT HAVE CAPTIVATED THE BLACK COMMUNITY for decades and have caused the Hip Hop community to fall in love with them. So I have linked 5 definitions of Black with African Americans which is also a definition of being Black. Is this what being Black really stands for? Crime, punishment, failure, and destruction? Only awareness of the deplorable conditions Black people have put themselves in will bring them out of this black hole that continues to suck thousands of African Americans into. Being a Black person should not mean you are evil, replete with disgust, or untrustworthy. Being Black means you are strong, immaculate, teeming with knowledge, and avant garde. Yet with the statistics that the Black community has towards crime and college enrollment, it is almost impossible to prove that.
—Synonyms
1. dark, dusky; sooty, inky; swart, swarthy; sable, ebony. 4. dirty, dingy. 5. sad, depressing, somber, doleful, mournful, funereal. 7. disastrous, calamitous. 9. sinful, inhuman, fiendish, devilish, infernal, monstrous; atrocious, horrible; nefarious, treacherous, traitorous, villainous.
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