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blacks

Meaning

The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.

Soot flying in the air.

Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome. Clarence Thomas

If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn't there a black exodus? David Horowitz

Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by. Herman Melville

They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.' And they learned. Huey Long

If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up. Jan Smuts

Two blacks do not make a white. Romanian Proverb

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