Meanings
- ethnicoffensivesluruncountableA black person or black people generally.
"Gator bait, gator bait," chanted Claude Betancourt. "Nigger meat's gator bait!"
1938, George D. Stephens, “Alligator Bait...”, in Southwest Review, volume 23, number 3, Dallas: Southern Methodist University, →JSTOR, page 3332 more examples
Yet when it comes to this niggerfaggot who turned over a dozen niglets into Chattahoochee gator bait, he's "the victim of a Klan conspiracy."
2001 May 1, Byker <byker@do~rag.net>, “IT'S ABOUT TIME.......”, in alt.politics.nationalism.white (Usenet), message-ID <44139JD237012.7412384259@nuther-planet.net>[Black children in popular media had] wide toothy grins, rolling white eyes, shiny dark faces, and uncontrollably kinky hair […]. Supportive props [included] watermelon, bales of cotton, and alligators […]. The more vicious scenes devalued Black children's lives to the extent that entrepreneurs claimed they were 'dainty morsel,' 'free lunches' or 'gator bait' for carnivorous reptiles.
2005, Wilma King, African American Childhoods, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, archived from [not the original] on 13 Mar 2020, page 123
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