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(South Africa) a white person from South Africa. The term implies that white people stole land from black people during the Apartheid era, and are therefore responsible for the current economic and social inequalities in the country. [47] Mangiacake (Canada) used by Italian Canadians for those of Anglo-Saxon or Northwestern European descent.
Names for such groups include mestizo, zambo and pardo in Spanish, for people with European and Native, African and Native or European and African admixed ancestry respectively, besides castizo for people who are over three-quarters European and around one-fourth Native in ancestry, and caboclo (current) or mameluco (dated), cafuzo, juçara ...
Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial epithet directed towards white people, [1] [2] [3] used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the Southern United States. [4] Although commonly a pejorative , it is also used in a neutral context, particularly in reference to a native of Florida or Georgia (see Florida cracker and ...
Native Americans are killed by police at 3 times the rate of White Americans and 2.6 times the rate of Black Americans, yet rarely do these deaths gain the national spotlight. The initial lack of media coverage and accountability has resulted in Indigenous-led movements such as Native Lives Matter and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women ...
“Race,” “racism,” and “racist” are also extreme trigger words for (some) white people. Any time we bring up the racist undertones involved in any incident between Black people and ...
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) passed a resolution calling for the end of the use of Native American names, images, and mascots in 1999. [56] In 2001, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released an advisory opinion calling for an end to the use of Native American images and team names by non-Native ...
Black people can't be racist since we don't stand to benefit from such a system." Another sign insisted that white people who said "African American" wanted to use the racial slur, "n*ggers," instead.
While it is commonly described as referring to white people [9] a form of the term, "waṡicu ha sapa" (literally black wašíču) can be used to refer to African-Americans. [17] Wašíču Ikčéka (Ordinary Whites) is the name for French people, and Wašíču Ikčéka Makȟóčhe is the name for France (Homelands of the Ordinary Whites). [18]