I legit thought it was theory but google just drowned me in a deluge of memes

Hexbear shows up as the third result when googling the term. Amazing.

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Read Settlers

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There must be an earlier instance of terms like amerikkka

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Not to split hairs but I don’t think there’s any “amerikkka” in settlers. Sakai uses “Amerika” and yea I believe he borrowed it from other groups. My memory is a little fuzzy on the specifics, another comrade may know better, but I think it came from some black or afro nationalist orgs or other things like that. It definitely predates settlers

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Amerika

isn’t that just german?

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Assata has it I think

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Amerika was fist used in the 1960s, to liken the United States to Nazi Germany, as it’s the German spelling of America.

Amerikkka was an evolution of that popularised by music, magazines and books as far as I know. I know NWA and Ice Cube used it a lot in their music and promotional materials.

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To their white surprise

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Lots of Mao’s writing is very direct and clarifying while simultaneously having a particular feel/cadence to it through virtue of translation. Couple that with the insular dogmatism of many white “maoists” in the US, and you get a special flavor of English.

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