Meaning of pavement ape | Babel Free

Definitions

A black person.

derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur

Examples

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

“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.”

““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!””

“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.”

“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).”

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