pavement ape

plural pavement apes

1. derogatoryethnicoffensiveslangslurA black person.

   Colon, as an Italo-Afro-American, YOU are one of those pavement apes.

   2015, NEMO, “Re: What does NAACP stand for?”, in uk.rec.driving (Usenet)

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   If the cops have to kill him, they will,^([sic]) claim he committed suicide. Otherwise every pavement ape in Virginia will be out protesting. You know how they love their criminals.

   2015, Gary, “Re: 2 white TV journalists shot and killed during an ordinary interview about a store.”, in soc.retirement (Usenet)

   “Dear Black America, 'Let go of your “black victimhood” and bring yourself to the point of admission that “you hoodrats and pavement apes are the ones destroying black lives and communities.” And in closing, “don't blame Whitey!”

   2018 April 15, George Yancy, Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 48

   So, as a "hoodrat" and a "pavement ape," it is believed that I am ontologically those horrible things. Think here of how the Jews were depicted as "vermin." This is more than racist biology, but a racist metaphysical way of construing the being of Jews.

   2020 February 15, George Yancy, Across Black Spaces: Essays and Interviews from an American Philosopher, →ISBN, page 19

   White readers responded to Yancy with angry, profanity-laced denunciations ranging from death threats to comments calling him a “pavement ape” that needed to “go back to Africa” (Yancy, 2018).

   2020 October 12, Todd M. Mealy, Race Conscious Pedagogy: Disrupting Racism at Majority White Schools, McFarland, →ISBN, page 118

   Synonyms: gutter ape, street ape, yard ape