Guest guest Posted October 29, 2004 Report Posted October 29, 2004 > >> 3. What country are you in now? > > United States of Amerikkka > > um...okay...sisterfeatha.... quick question, but what does Amerikka mean? > > Jo (hoping it doesn't mean what she thinks it means...) Okay,I'll bite ;=) What could it mean? What do you *think* it could mean? Just curious. Pat ;=) Quote
Guest guest Posted October 30, 2004 Report Posted October 30, 2004 greenfury2004 wrote... > >> 3. What country are you in now? > > United States of Amerikkka > > um...okay...sisterfeatha.... quick question, but what does Amerikka mean? > > Jo (hoping it doesn't mean what she thinks it means...) >Okay,I'll bite ;=) What could it mean? What do you *think* it could mean? Just >curious. well, i could be totally way off base here.... but those three letters (kkk) sort of ring alarm bells in my mind....as in the Ku Klux Klan.... jo Quote
Guest guest Posted October 30, 2004 Report Posted October 30, 2004 i goggled it and i am relieved to say i found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikkka " KKK " replacing " C " or " K " The most common usage of the letters " kkk " in alternative political spelling is the spelling of " America " as Amerikkka. This is often done to indicate the belief that the United States of America or American society is fundamentally racist, oppressive and corrupt. The earliest known usage of " Amerikkka " recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is in 1970, in a journal called Black World. Presumably, this was an extrapolation from the then already widespread " Amerika " . The spelling " Amerikkka " came into greater use after the 1990 release of the gangsta rap album AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted by Ice Cube. __________________ :::phew::: jo (who just got a bit freaked out by those 3 little letters and assumed that the KKK was infiltrating this list - ha ha ha!) ;-) Quote
Guest guest Posted October 30, 2004 Report Posted October 30, 2004 Good ol' Wikipedia to the rescue! That has always been my understanding too, but ya never know. All okay now? Good ;=) Movin' on . . . . Best, Pat ;=) > i goggled it and i am relieved to say i found this: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikkka Quote
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