nigger university

English

Etymology

Mid 1990s. Implying that a disproportionate number of blacks will eventually be incarcerated.

Noun

nigger university (plural nigger universities)

  1. (derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A prison.
    • 2012, D. S. Brown, Why I Voted for President Barack Hussein Obama II‎, Bloomington, Indiana, United States: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 44:
      On one blog I was treated to a picture of a caged monkey with the below caption:
      Imagine for a minute the fantastic awesome reaction among other chimps if Obama was pulled from his palace and sent to Nigger University (Prison) for 25 years. Not only would they chimp out, but it'd be a perfect excuse to add them to the good nigger (dead nigger) list. It's a win-win!
    • 2019, Gary A. James, Darkness of Blue: A Novel‎, Bloomington, Indiana, United States: LifeRich Publishing, →ISBN:
      Kidd said, "Like I said, cuz... either we snuff, or we get snuffed. Every hood got to handle their scandal, or else the po will roll up on them. Then more hood's gonna end up in the slammer."
      "That's nigger university..." jibed Fabe.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see nigger,‎ university.
    • 2008, Gregory S. Parks, Shayne E. Jones, “Nigger: A Critical Race Realist Analysis of the N-Word within Hate Crimes Law”, in Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology‎, volume 98, number 4:
      Supreme Court Justice James Clark McReynolds referred to Howard University, a historically Black institution, as a "nigger university."
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