Amerikkka

English

Alternative forms

• AmeriKKKa

Etymology

Blend of America +‎ KKK.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Amerikkka

1. (derogatory slang) The United States of America. Generally used in depicting the country as fascist or racist.
   • 1970 July, “White Ethics and Black Power: The Emergence of the West Side Organization”, in Black World/Negro Digest, volume 19, number 9, page 83:

     In Amerikkka, this movement is evident from efforts to control the institutions serving and located within Black communities.

   • 1970 June, Broadside‎^[1], volume 107, page 7:

     We have said […] that one of the greatest dangers of the continuance of the Vietnam war was that […] it would lead to an inevitable rise of fascism at home. Now that the U.S. is spreading the aggression in Indo-China the danger is coming icily close. The Black Panthers believe this is already a Fascist Amerikkka; we can understand this view from the black ghetto. We happen to hold that many Americans will resist, and there may be a Civil War in which thousands, if not millions, will die. Feeling thus, it is hard to get enthused about cleaning up the Hudson. There is a strong suspicion that Earth Day was a diversion, for at that very moment plans were being put in operation in Washington to spread death and destruction to Cambodia.

   • 1990, “AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted”, in AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, performed by Ice Cube:

     And get mad, mad 'cause I'm the nigga that flaunt it / AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted

   • 2002, Courtney X, Lasting Visions, page 202:

     […] it's so obscene and Amerikkka and greedy, but pleasing to the eye […]

   • 2009, Marcyliena H. Morgan, The real hiphop: battling for knowledge, power, and respect, page 161:

     Ben Caldwell recalls the scene as follows:
     Life as we know it is about to change
     I smell it within the air the weather is getting strange
     Drugged up sedated and numb from the pain
     The sickness in Amerikkka has spread to her brain [...]

Synonyms

• Merikkka
• 'Murikkka

Derived terms

• Amerikkkan

See also

• Satiric misspelling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia