An extreme, exaggerated reaction a person may have to something he or she experiences with any of the five senses. The stimulus to a reblacktion is likely to be physically appalling and often causes the subject to jump up and down frantically, shake his or her head in a quick fashion, and/or piont and look at the stimulus in fear, if visible. The most vulnerable to experiencing reblacktions are those who are truly African American or African American at heart. Reblacktions are not more or less common within any gender human being, but are found to be experienced more commonly by African Americans.

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods