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Race traitor
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Race traitor is a pejorative reference to someone who is perceived as supporting attitudes or positions thought to be antithetical to the interests or well-being of their own race. For example, one or both parties to an interracial relationship may be characterised as "race traitors". The term may indicate racialist attitudes on the part of those who use it.
In To Kill a Mockingbird, the character of Atticus Finch is seen as a race traitor by many of his fellow white residents, who call him a "nigger lover" for defending a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. More recently, Condoleezza Rice has been described by some as a race traitor (or an Aunt Jemima or Uncle Tom) by some African-Americans who consider her conservative political views and actions in the service of the politically conservative Bush administration at odds with the interests of African-Americans.
The term is the source of the name of a quarterly magazine, Race Traitor, founded in 1992.
- ^ Urban Dictionary definition