This was the blacklash. The whitelash came, too, and blood flowed in the streets.
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Blacklash
//ˈblækˌlæʃ//
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Nor is this the only case of racial thinking in contemporary thought . A "blacklash" may partly motivate the Afrocentrist movement among African-American scholars.
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Such thinking contributes to preexisting resentful attitudes towards lesbians and gay men and prompts what Gates calls a "blacklash" or a view that being lesbian or gay is a chosen identity and a mere inconvenience, whereas being black is to "inherit a legacy of hardship and inequity" (p. 42).
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