nigger moment

plural nigger moments · alternative nigga moment

1. ethnicoffensiveslangslurAfrican-American VernacularA moment in which emotion or ignorance overpowers one's rationality, causing an outburst of irrational aggression.

   The victim in a “nigger moment” may, in turn, identify his or her abuser as a racist—the most powerful verbal weapon in the black person's arsenal.

   2012, Elijah Anderson, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life

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   The “What'chu lookin' at?!” beef was brewing and it could easily become a “nigger moment.” We stopped and I maintained eye contact with them as they walked sideways past us. They didn't say anything and I had nothing to say either.

   2015, Cavario H., Raised by Wolves : Inside the Life & Mind of a Guerrilla Hustler