1. The act of a black person explaining away negative facts or statistics about black people (e.g. crime rates, test scores, illegitimacy rates, net worth), or negative acts of black people, as primarily the fault of white people, racist power structures, slavery, and colonialism.
2. The act of a black person explaining that their son, nephew, cousin, did not commit that crime.
2. The act of a black person explaining that their son, nephew, cousin, did not commit that crime.
Al Sharpton was on TV blacksplaining away criticism of Obama as the grumblings of old, straight, crusty white people.
"He a good boy, he didn't rape that girl. He was gonna go to college and be a rapper," Takeisha Jackson blacksplained to NY1 after her son Davontae was arrested for raping the retarded 12 year old girl next door.
"He a good boy, he didn't rape that girl. He was gonna go to college and be a rapper," Takeisha Jackson blacksplained to NY1 after her son Davontae was arrested for raping the retarded 12 year old girl next door.
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"I had to blacksplain to someone, that the guy who said that slavery was a godsend, was wrong, and why."
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Shrugging off someone's sharing of information or knowledge on a subject, especially topics of race or culture, as being motivated by their whiteness, your blackness, or some other aspect of race and racism. Blacksplaining is often done in the same breath as accusing another person of whitesplaining. See "whitesplaining" for more information. Blacksplaining is a backhanded form of racism, a red herring which decides the white person is innately racist instead of the black person who just hates the white person for talking at all.
White person: "I went to China last week to practice my Chinese. I didn't realize that they had views on black people that are worse than most places in the west. I heard some Chinese people calling black Chinese residents actual racial slurs in front of them."
Black person: "Stop whitesplaining."
White person: "I'm sorry... I was sharing something I learned which I didn't previously know. I know that not a lot of people are aware of the various types of racism worldwide, and I definitely wasn't. So I was just sharing what I saw firsthand. I didn't realize sharing knowledge was whitesplaining."
Black person: "Why don't you just stop being a racist, how about that?"
White person: "It actually sounds more like you're trying to blacksplain me."
Black person: "Stop whitesplaining."
White person: "I'm sorry... I was sharing something I learned which I didn't previously know. I know that not a lot of people are aware of the various types of racism worldwide, and I definitely wasn't. So I was just sharing what I saw firsthand. I didn't realize sharing knowledge was whitesplaining."
Black person: "Why don't you just stop being a racist, how about that?"
White person: "It actually sounds more like you're trying to blacksplain me."
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Todd backsplained how to cook a good omelette to his chef friend who showed him the recipe the previous week.
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