Someone that is half-black and half-white, but tends more toward the white.
Jesse Jackson, in commenting on the Don Imus vs. Rutgers Womens Basketball team dispute, talks about "racial terminology", and cites Halle Berry having been described as "Halfrican-American".
A person that is only half African American, but the ignorant public views them as 100% African American. Normally this is a person with one white parent and one African American parent.
Tom: Barack Obama is the first African American president.
Bill: Don't be so ignorant, Obama is Halfrican American.
to be half african american and half another race, or races........including red boneded people (black cherokees, and blacks that mixed with other indians), high yella people (light skinneded african americans)
Qwan~ "Sean and Padraic, yall my 2 favorite Halfrican Americans"
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.