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Uncle tom

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A black man who is servile towards white authority and accepting of white supremacy, a black race traitor. derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur

    "...their master... was no ad for anybody but the most arcane Black Power, he was an old prince of a witch doctor—insult him at your peril—but the other ten musicians with their trumpets and snares and assorted brass would prove no pull for Nixon on TV with any Black votes watching, for they were old and meek, naught but elderly Black Southern musicians, a veritable Ganges of Uncle Toms. They had disappeared with Tom Swift and Little Lord Fauntleroy."

  2. 2
    (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites wordnet

Etymology

Referring to the character in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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