blacksplain

1. The act of a black person explaining away negative facts or statistics about black people (e.g. crime rates, test scores, illegitimacy rates, net worth), or negative acts of black people, as primarily the fault of white people, racist power structures, slavery, and colonialism.

2. The act of a black person explaining that their son, nephew, cousin, did not commit that crime.

Al Sharpton was on TV blacksplaining away criticism of Obama as the grumblings of old, straight, crusty white people.

"He a good boy, he didn't rape that girl. He was gonna go to college and be a rapper," Takeisha Jackson blacksplained to NY1 after her son Davontae was arrested for raping the retarded 12 year old girl next door.

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