Coonery

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The behavior of a "coon"; in present usage now typically meaning a black person who behaves in a subservient way to whites derogatory, ethnic, slur, uncountable

    "Spike Lee I think there's a lot of stuff out today that is coonery and buffoonery"

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"Spike Lee I think there's a lot of stuff out today that is coonery and buffoonery"

Etymology

From coon + -ery.

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