negro fatigue

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negro fatigue (uncountable)

  1. (uncountable, derogatory, psychology, US) Physical or psychological fatigue or trauma experienced by nonblacks who live or work among black people.
    • 2012 April 6, rebcar...@gmail.com, “Negro Fatigue Confirmed”, in soc.culture.israel[1] (Usenet):
      There has been some speculation in the blogosphere that Negro Fatigue is setting in nationwide among Whites over the Trayvon Martin case. Here are the numbers:
      http://www.occidentaldissent.com/2012/04/05/usa-todaygallup-poll-negro-fatigue-confirmed/
    • 2012, Marshall Elijah Hatch, Project America: memoirs of faith and hope to win the future[2], Life To Legacy LLC, →ISBN:
      By the end of undergrad in 1980, it was clear that the America that I had entered into college with in 1976 had undergone regressive transformation. With the defeat of President Jimmy Carter and the election of Ronald Reagan, the modern reconstruction of black America was over. The nation had suffered a severe case of “Negro fatigue.” Moving forward, the national government would officially disengage the great Project of righting the wrongs and repairing the damage of America's original sin.
    • 2016 February 14, Byker, “"Roots" remake”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh[3] (Usenet):
      At least it shows fellow Africoonians causing them to be slaves in the first
      place
      It’s really no surprise that a string of anti-White slavery movies have
      shown during the "fundamental transformation" era of Obama. The only good
      news is that Americans are starting to have "negro fatigue", thanks to Al
      Sharpton, the "Ferguson effect", and the rise of the "Black Lives Matter"
      movement.
    • 2017 March 31, Christopher Brian Booker, The Black Presidential Nightmare: African-Americans and Presidents, 1789–2016[4], Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:
      Some observers even cited the factor of “negro fatigue.” Morgan notes that a fifty year old man in 1877 had spent most of his life “worrying over the South and the Negro” first during the antebellum crises over slavery, then during the antebellum crises over slavery, then during the four years of Civil War, and later during twelve years of Reconstruction.

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