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Amerika; Amerikkka
noun
the United States US, 1969
A spelling favoured by the political counterculture in the late 1960s and early 1970s; in the second form, “kkk” signifies the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan. Rap artist Ice Cube’s 1990 album AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted gave the KKK spelling high-profile exposure.- It wasn’t until after the slave trade ended that Amerika, England, France, and the Netherlands invaded and settled in on Afro-Asian soil in earnest. — George Jackson, Soledad Brother, p. 236, April 1970
- The New York bombers identified themselves afterward as “revolutionary force 9” in a message to “Amerika” (a current fad in radical literature is to spell it with a German “k” to denote facism). — San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle Datebook, p. 18, 5 April 1970
- A number of slogans were sprayed in black paint on the walls of the long shopping center, of which the bank branch occupied a portion. The included “Bank of Amerikka.” — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 1, 27 October 1970
- They put us on trial; we denounced “Amerika,” with its teutonic look, or “Amerikkka.” — Todd Gitlin, The Sixties, p. 288, 1987
- I believe that all three take a tremendous toll on the behavior of Blacks in Amerikkka. — Yusuf Jah, Uprising, p. 65, 1995
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