booty scratcher

Noun

booty scratcher (plural booty scratchers)

1. (Canada, US, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur) An African person.
   • […] What in the world is an African booty scratcher?” “Something my sister used to call me. I didn’t know what an African booty scratcher was and I still don’t, but I knew it was something negative things around me had taught me that any and everything referencing Africa had dubious admirable...1999, Odessa Rose, Water in a Broken Glass. A novel, La Caille Nous Pub. / Cool Water Publishing House LLC, →ISBN, page 121
   • At elite universities, Caribbean students have reportedly excluded African Americans from organizations and study groups, claiming, as part of their immigration narratives, that the latter group lacks the appropriate work ethic to participate. Young Caribbean people learn from their parents the...2004, Imani Perry, Prophets of the Hood. Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 17